1 killed, 13 injured in
Talisay accident
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Beating the traffic red light yesterday led to the collision of two passenger vehicles at the airport access road in Brgy. Efigenio Lizares, Talisay City, Negros Occidental, that claimed the life of a passenger and caused injuries to 13 others, police reports said.

Talisay City resident Dunie Cornelio, 27, died on the spot, when the vehicle he was riding collided with a Nissan Urban vehicle, with 10 passengers who were on their way to the Silay airport at about 6:10 a.m. yesterday, Chief Inspector Joresty Coronica, Talisay police chief, yesterday said.

Cornelio succumbed to fatal head injuries, police records show.

Guard gets 40 years for rape
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A security guard from Negros Occidental was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment yesterday for the rape of his cousin.

Bago City Regional Trial Court Branch 62 Judge Frances Guanzon found Jonaldo Altaris, alias Jonald, 45, guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of rape and sentenced him to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

He was also ordered to pay the complainant, whose name is being withheld by the DAILY STAR, P70,000 for moral damages.

‘Be transformed
from glory to glory'
BY *VICENTE NAVARRA
Bishop of Bacolod

These most sacred days of the year are celebrations of remembering and beholding. St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesians bids us to be “rooted and grounded in love…that we may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones, what is the breadth and length and height and depth of the Love of Christ.” (cf. Eph. 3:18-19)

As LOVE takes center stage, I exhort everyone to a brand of observance that brings us to an intense experience of being eternally loved. Our manner of celebration thus, should not merely be ceremonial, ritualistic and formalistic but with increasing devotion, we yearn deeply to be captivated by a LOVE that never fails to surprise us.

Finally, let us not lose sight of the truth that Lent and Holy Week is a joyful season. As it were, we are to celebrate the feast with “the joy of minds made pure” (cf. LENT Preface 1). This is a resounding invitation to rejoice, for indeed, “with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption” (cf. Ps. 130:7).