Imports to make Negros
PH sheep capital – guv
FLIGHT HOME DELAYED BY QANTAS STRIKE
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Negros Occidental is importing 6,000 to 7,000 Dorper sheep from Australia for breeding, and that number will make it the sheep capital of the Philippines, Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr., who returned from a weeklong trip to Australia Sunday, said yesterday.

The governor’s return to the Philippines from Australia that was set Friday was delayed by a Qantas Airways strike. Marañon and Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena were on board a Qantas plane in Perth Friday when they had to disembark because a strike was declared.

They were supposed to fly from Perth to Melbourne for a connecting flight back to the Philippines on Friday, he said.

The observance of All Saints’ Day and All Soul’s Day on Nov. 1 and 2 was marred with incidents of killings, grenade throwing, molestation and vehicular accidents in Negros Occidental, but they were described by the police as isolated cases.

Two families settled their feud in hacking and shooting incidents Tuesday in Hacienda Alicante, Brgy. Bungahin, Isabela, where the lives of two were lost and another one was injured, police records show.

Romeo Entile, 65, and Edgardo Pragata, 34, were both killed in shooting and hacking incidents, and injured was Rene Saldivar, 25.

Two teenagers, one of them a minor, stabbed and killed a businessman in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City, Sunday in what the police said was a “tripping” incident.

The victim was identified as Arnel Las Piñas, 39, of Purok Ylac in Brgy. Villamonte by case investigator Police Officer 1 Gilbert Alunan yesterday

The victim is the owner of RGP Security Agency and cousin of Brgy. Villamonte Captain Andrei Victor Las Piñas.