Roxas joining Negros
meet on island region
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas is joining a forum on the bid to create a Negros Island region at the provincial Capitol in Bacolod City tomorrow morning, Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said yesterday.

Congressmen, provincial officials and mayors from Negros Occidental and Oriental have been invited to the forum, he said.

Marañon said resolutions in support of the move to create a Negros Island region from various local government units on the island have been submitted to Roxas, and more will be given to him tomorrow.

2 cops relieved
BY SHIELA GELERA

The two members of the Bacolod City Police Office Special Operations Group, who allegedly received money from suspected drug lords, were relieved from their posts.

Supt. Armando Tubongbaua, BCPO caretaker, said yesterday that Police Officer 1 Dennis Finch and Senior Police Officer 4 Hobart Bautista were relieved by the Police Regional Office-6 a Special Order number 1704, dated June 17, 2017. The PRO-6 ordered the transfer of Finch and Bautista to the Regional Police Holding and Administrative Unit.

Finch, Bautista, and their former commander, Supt. Jefferson Descallar are being investigated by the National Police Commission-Region 6 and the PRO-6 for allegedly receiving money from illegal drugs operations.

Voter registration will stop
for 90 days if SK polls ok’d
BY CARAL GOMEZ

Commission on Elections Commissioner Grace Padaca Saturday said the registration of voters for the 2016 polls will be suspended for 90 days if the Sanguniang Kabataan elections pushes through.

There is a big possibility that Congress may decide to set the SK elections any time from October this year to not later than February 2015, she said.

If an election date is set, registration of voters will be suspended for 90 days, to allow the Comelec to prepare for the SK polls, she said.

Padaca said the public should not think that they have until October 2015 to register to vote, they should register now and not wait for the last minute, especially with the possibility of the 90-day suspension.