President Benigno Aquino has appointed more Negenses to national positions.

Named members of the board of the Philippines Sugar Corp. are Joseph Conrad Ledesma, Freddie Zayco, Roberto Abello, Andrew Regalado, Joseph Edgar Sarrosa and Teotimo Ballesteros of Negros Occidental, Sugar Regulatory Administrator Gina Martin said yesterday.

Martin, who chairs the Philsucor board, said other members of the board are Augusto Araneta Jr. and Francis Treñas of Iloilo and Cornelio Toreja of Luzon.

Jealousy drove a husband to strangle to death his wife in Brgy. Robles, La Castellana, Negros Occidental, Sunday,  police said yesterday.

Worse, the suspect identified as Alejandro Pior, 36, even threatened to kill their 7-year-old son, whom he brought with him, if a pursuit operation is launched against him, Inspector Romeo Vargas, La Castellana police chief, said.

Vargas said the victim, Mechu Pior, 30, was already dead when she was found by her daughter, April Joy, and mother, Flora Piaras, at their house in Hacienda Baksay of the barangay.

The president of the Bacolod Imperial Court Inc. in Bacolod City is requesting the city to recall the closure order it implemented on the motel and to issue it a mayor’s permit, saying there is no more legal obstacle to withhold it.

The closure order dated Dec. 30, 2010 was based on Sangguniang Panlungsod Resolution 865, Series of 2010, that requests the Office of the Mayor to hold any action on the application for a business permit by Bacolod Imperial Court Inc. and recall it if one has been issued until the issue of its Environmental Compliance Certificate has been clarified.