Cops prevent Lopezes
from padlocking landfill
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Lopez family was prevented by the police from trying to padlock again the main gate of the sanitary landfill in Brgy. Felisa, Bacolod City, yesterday that was reopened by the Mayor Monday by exercising his police powers.

The 7-hectare sanitary landfill was padlocked by the Lopez family on October 4 after the city government refused to settle the remaining P3.8 million balance of the total P23.8 million cost of property due to the disallowance by the Commission on Audit.

Brothers Jose Manuel and Roy Lopez, together with their nephew, Teddy, were barred by Police Senior Supt. Edgardo Ordaniel, Bacolod City Police Director, and elements of Police Station 10 and the Public Safety Batallion from closing the main gate of the sanitary landfill yesterday upon orders of Mayor Monico Puentevella who had issued a memorandum directing Ordaniel to deploy a sufficient number of police personnel at the sanitary landfill on a 24-hour basis, in order to protect the government's property.

Carnapper gets
40-year prison term
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

A carnapper who stole two motorcycles in Bacolod City in 2007 was sentenced yesterday to 40 years of imprisonment.

Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 49 Judge Manuel Cardinal yesterday sentenced Nelson Medalla Sapar after finding him guilty beyond reasonable doubt on two counts of violation of Republic Act 6539, or the Anti-Carnapping Act of 1972, as amended.

Sapar pleaded guilty of stealing the Suzuki Smash 110 cc motorcycle of Joel Tee valued at P53,000 on November 8, 2007, and initially denied stealing the Rusi Extreme motorcycle of Joean Trinilla valued at P68,760 on the same date, but withdrew his plea of innocence during the presentation of evidence.

We must save Earth - Alminaza
BY CARLA GOMEZ

SAN CARLOS, Neg. Occ. – San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza yesterday said, “As we work together to feed the survivors of the recent earthquake and super typhoon Yolanda, and rebuild their lives, we must also  join hands in saving Mother Earth.”

“Our recent tragic experience calls us to strengthen our faith in God and in each other, as we help the victims of earthquake and the super typhoon,” he said.

At the same time, there is a need to look at the laws of nature put in by God which some greedy people and nations have broken, Alminaza added.