A love triangle is being eyed as the motive behind the fatal shooting of a policeman at about 2:15 a.m. yesterday in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod, ;City Police Director Senior Supt. Ricardo de la Paz said.

He ;identified the victim as Police Officer 1 Robert Espinosa, 24, of Puentebella Subdivision,Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod.

Espinosa, a member of the Regional Public Safety Management Battallion-6 and detailed at Police Station 1, sustained agunshot wound on the head and died while being treated at the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center at about 3:45 a.m. yesterday.

Bacolod Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Joan Gerangaya yesterday warned that catching, trading and transport of geckos (tukos) are illegal under the Philippine Wildlife Act.

Violation of Republic Act No. 9147 carries penalties of imprisonment along with fines commensurate to the gravity of the offense, he said.

“There are people who have applied for permits to transport geckos at the CENRO in Bacolod, but we have informed them that we cannot grant such permits,” Gerangaya said.

Manta Energy Inc. president Alberto Guanzon yesterday accused Central Negros Electric Cooperative general manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr. of misleading the public with his recent statements on the MEI-CENECO power supply contract now awaiting approval by the Energy Regulatory Commission.

He said they have an enforceable contract signed with then CENECO president Vicente Sabornay in 2009, which covers 22 megawatt for CENECO’s intermediate load, not 46 MW as Lagarde claimed.

Lagarde said Manta should convince ERC that they have a contract with CENECO since they do not have one.