Cops searching for clues
on P1.2 million robbery
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW & JUANCHO GALLARDE

Police are following up leads in the P1.2 million robbery of a business establishment in Barangay Bantayan, Dumaguete City, Saturday, Police chief, Supt. James Goforth, said yesterday.

Five armed men had barged into the Cosner Trading Corporation in Bantayan and announced the heist.

Initial investigations show that when the gate of the store opened for driver Joel Romarate of Siaton to get out, the armed men barged in and immediately disarmed the guard on duty Mario Manrique, 49, of Solid Security Agency, of his .38 service revolver, and ordered him, Romarate and five other employees to duck.

NPA denies casualty in clash
against Army in La Libertad
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

The Leonardo Panaligan Command of the New People’s Army denied that it incurred a casualty in an encounter with the military in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, on Nov. 24, claiming it was possibly a “mis-encounter” with a group of “Greenans,” a religious cult.

Rebel spokesman Ka JB Regalado, said in a statement he issued that the military’s claim of an NPA casualty is more of “pogi points”, and mere “black propaganda.”

The 11th Infantry Battalion, however, maintained that it was an encounter between its Bravo Company troopers and about 10 armed members of the Larangan Gerilya I unit of the NPA, that had resulted in the killing of a suspected NPA member, the recovery of a carbine rifle, and a backpack containing personal belongings and subversive documents.

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