House body to push for
airport expansion
TO BOOST ARRIVAL OF INT'L FLIGHTS
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A delegation from the House of Representatives that inspected the Bacolod Silay Airport yesterday promised to push for the expansion of its terminal and the extension of its runway to accommodate bigger aircraft for international flights.

“We will strongly recommend this to the Department of Transportation and Communication, and will see that it is done,” Catanduanes Rep. Cesar Sarmiento, chairman of the House Congressional Oversight Committee on Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, and the House Committee on Transportation, said.

They will also push for Customs, Immigration and Quarantine personnel at the Bacolod Silay Airport for international flights, Sarmiento said.

Bizman files libel
raps vs. Gamboa
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Bacolod businessman Crispin Chua filed seven counts of libel against Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. before the Bacolod City Prosecutor's Office yesterday, for repeatedly calling him a “pathological and a congenital liar”, in several interviews involving the issue of the Bacolod Northbound terminal.

Chua also requested the Prosecutor to subpoena hard copies of all recorded interviews of Gamboa between January 17 to April 4, which are presently in the custody of DYRL, DYHB, DYAF and DYEZ, and to conduct a preliminary investigation as soon as possible.

He said all the public interviews of Gamboa accusing him of being a “pathological and a congenital liar,” and further explaining to the public these defamatory words to describe his character as a person, are grossly defamatory and/or libelous, or violative of Articles 353 and 355 of the Revised Penal Code.

Court issues TRO
versus Ceneco polls
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

Bacolod Regional Trial Court Branch 49 Judge Manuel Cardinal issued a 3-day Temporary Restraining Order yesterday against the elections scheduled tomorrow in two districts of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative.

The TRO covers the elections of Districts 4 (Bacolod East) and 5 (Bacolod West), while the election at District 8 (Talisay City) will go on, Jan Anthony Saril, CENECO legal counsel, told the DAILY STAR yesterday.

Saril said the TRO was issued by the judge on the complaints of Jelssen Dumancas and Vicente Tan, candidates of Districts 4 and 5, respectively, who were earlier disqualified by the screening committee.