National agri loses P7B,
sugar industry P1.21B
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The sugar industry lost P1,210,969,409 to super typhoon Yolanda, a report from Sugar Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina Martin said yesterday.

This represents 931,514.93 Lkg of sugar, or 2.79 percent of the country’s production, she said.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said the damage to the country’s sugar is minimal because sugarcane is a resilient crop.

But two sugar mills – Bogo-Medellin Milling Co. Inc. in Cebu and Ormoc Sugar Co. in Ormoc - have been damaged by “Yolanda” and will not be able to resume milling of cane in their areas for some time, Martin said.

Negrense missing in
Tacloban, 5 return
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A firefighter-mechanic of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Philippines at the Bacolod-Silay Airport is missing in Tacloban.

Missing is Sabo Espina, an expert in firetrucks, who had been issued a travel order to go to the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport in Tacloban to repair a firetruck, Bacolod-Silay Airport manager Mecine Reyes said yesterday.

He had been there for about a week and was supposed to return to Negros, the day after typhoon “Yolanda” hit on November 8.

WV Yolanda death
toll rises to 190
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

After the restoration of communication lines in previously isolated areas in northern Panay, that was hit by super typhoon “Yolanda”, Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz, regional police director, said yesterday that the death toll has risen to 190.

However, the report of the Office on Civil Defense 6 showed a lower number and has recorded 114, as of yesterday, with only one reported in Negros Occidental.

Ten persons are still missing, while 165 others were injured, the OCD 6 report also showed.