Penro serving CDOs vs.
35 in SBenedicto
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office is issuing Cease and Desist Orders against 35 persons, many of whom have built vacation or rest houses within the Northern Negros Natural Park in Salvador Benedicto, PENRO Andres Untal said yesterday.

The CDOs will be served on the 35, who are mostly prominent persons who have built structures within the NNNP protected area, by a composite team of PENRO and Task Forces Ilahas men today, Untal said.

The CDOs will direct the 35 to stop further construction in the area while their cases are referred to the Protected Area Management Board to determine action to be taken against the, Untal said.

More ‘Facebook scam'
victims file complaints
BY SHIELA GELERA

About 10 persons had gone to Police Station 1 in Bacolod City, as of yesterday, to complain that they, too, were robbed by the two live-in partners, who were allegedly engaged in a Facebook “budol-budol” operation.

Supt. Leonardo Borromeo, Station 1 commander said yesterday that the complainants, positively identified Emee Rose Vicera, 25, of Brgy. Mandalagan in Bacolod and her partner Juralph Gayares, 28, of Pulupandan town in Negros Occidental, as the ones who stole their gadgets.

Some of the complainants had photos of Vicera and Gayares, to prove their complaints, Borromeo said.

City retrieving
68 titles from PNB
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Bacolod City government is in the process of retrieving the 68 land titles from the Philippine National Bank in the amount of P12.5 million, which were purchased 18 years ago by the previous administration, Bacolod Mayor Monico Puentevella said yesterday.

Puentevella said that instead of borrowing money or soliciting loans from different banks, which was done in the previous years, they are now trying to consolidate, review and acquire back city properties.

He appealed to PNB to release the titles of the 68 properties (in Barangays Mandalagan, Alijis and Banago) purchased by the city in 1996 and paid for by the previous administration in the amount of PP12,492,000.