COUNCILOR SAYS
Bredco must pay higher rent to city
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Bacolod Councilor Al Victor Espino yesterday said the city should negotiate for an upward adjustment, or increase, in the port rental from the Bacolod Real Estate Development Authority since its Internal Revenue Allotment will be reduced next year due to the creation of 16 new cities.

Espino, chairman of the Committees on Appropriations and Finance, and Ways and Means, has proposed a resolution urging the mayor to initiate or commence the renegotiation of the upward adjustment with BREDCO as mandated in the Comprehensive Revised Reclamation Agreement.

The increase in the port rental is one of the issues to be discussed in the executive-legislative caucus.

A Silay City government employee yesterday filed criminal complaints  for direct assault, grave threats, oral defamation and physical injuries against a Silay resident responsible for filing numerous cases against  Mayor Jose “Oti” Montelibano.

The complaints were filed against Lito Chan, alias Lindy Chan, of Barangay Mambulac, Silay City, by Romeo Lavilla Jr., who said he was the Enforcement Division chief of the Office of the Building Official of the Silay City government.

In his complaint affidavit, Lavilla said that on July 22, he conducted, together with the Permit Inspection Team, an inspection of various residential and business establishments in Silay City.

A 2-year-old girl drowned in a fishpond in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

SPO2 Bibiana Ramos, chief of the Himamaylan police Women’s and Children Concerned Desk, said the body of Beverly Juanico was found floating in a fish cage in Brgy. 4, Himamaylan City.

Initial police investigations showed that the victim had been left by her aunt, Jessica Juanico, in a makeshift nipa hut in the place, and may have fallen into the fishpond.