Ramos slams Garcia
appointment in court
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Bacolod City Water District director Marichi Ramos filed a motion to admit amended petition Wednesday asking the Court to include former Bacolod vice mayor Ramiro Garcia as co-respondent in the case she filed for the nullification of the replacement order, with urgent prayer for issuance of a temporary restraining order.

This came after Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella appointed Garcia as her replacement as member of the board of directors of BACIWA representing the professional sector “effective immediately,” as stated in his letter to the BACIWA Board dated Nov. 19.

Ramos had filed a petition, with prayer for temporary restraining order, against LWUA officer-in-charge Manuel Yoingco, Office of the Acting LWUA Administrator officer-in-charge Eduardo Santos, and Juliana Carbon, BACIWA general manager, to prevent them from implementing the order of Yoingco for her replacement/removal pending further orders from the Court.

Capitol alert up
vs. rising prices
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Concern has been raised that  price increases noted in Bacolod City following super typhoon Yolanda  may soon be felt in the towns and cities of Negros Occidental.

Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. has asked  local price councils in the towns and cities of Negros Occidental to be  vigilant and regularly conduct monitoring, Marlin Sanogal, Provincial Planning and Development Officer, said yesterday.

Prices of  construction materials, eggs, dried fish, vegetables, and palay have risen in Bacolod City, the Negros Occidental Provincial Price Coordinating Council was informed at a meeting yesterday, said Sanogal, who is also the secretary of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.

DILG: Keep
transition smooth
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Regional Director Evelyn Trompeta of that Department of Interior and Local Government yesterday called for the smooth turnover of power in the barangays of Western Visayas.

About 30 percent of the barangay officials elected on October 28 are new, she said.

The barangay polls winners begin their three-year terms on December 1.

Trompeta said she hopes the new barangay officials know their tasks and responsibilities as they are taking on a big responsibility.