Pawnshop robbers
photo, sketch out
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

It is now clear who are behind the P2.5 million heist at the Prenda Negrense and Jewelry Shop Monday with the release of a facial sketch and the pictures of the two suspects yesterday.

This was disclosed by Bacolod City Police officer-in-charge, Senior Supt. Edgardo Ordaniel, who said robbery charges will be filed this week against the suspects.

The facial sketch drawn by the cartographic artist of the National Bureau of Investigation showed that one of the suspects is between 45 to 50 years old, about 5 feet and 6 inches tall, 150 lbs, of medium build and fair complexion.

‘Ceneco power rates
down 23 centavos’
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Central Negros Electric Cooperative power rates for February are down 23 centavos per kilowatt hour, and could further go down in March, its general manager Sulpicio Lagarde Jr., said yesterday.

He said there was an increase in power rates last month because KEPCO-Salcon Power Corp. that provides power to CENECO conducted preventive maintenance work that removed 80 megawatts of its production from the grid.

CENECO had to buy power through the Wholesale ElectricitySpot Market that was more expensive, he said.

The Commission on Elections and the Philippine National Police are spearheading the signing of peace covenants in Negros Occidental, with the first set in Bacolod City 4 p.m. tomorrow, Provincial Elections Supervisor Wil Arceño said yesterday.

The signing for Bacolod City will be held at the public plaza bandstand, Senior Supt. Edgardo Ordaniel, officer-in-charge of the Bacolod police, said.

A unity parade from the Capitol Lagoon to the Public Plaza will be held before the covenant signing and all candidates are urged to participate, he said.