IN SALVADOR BENEDICTO
Recipients of CDOs
still defying orders?
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Some personalities who had been issued cease-and-desist orders by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to make them stop the construction of facilities within the protected area of the Northern Negros Natural Park in Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, continue to defy the order,

Task Force Ilahas action officer, Chief Inspector Gabriel Gutierrez. said yesterday that DENR has issued cease-and desist orders to 48 individuals who include Salvador Benedicto Mayor Jose Max Ortiz and Murcia Mayor Andrew Montelibano, to prevent further construction within the NNNP protected area in the town.

Gutierrez, however, said their recent inspections at Salvador Benedicto showed that some personalities issued the CDO continue to occupy and deliver construction materials to their areas.

BTAO wants NBI probe
on Bacolod councilor
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Tit for tat?

Bacolod Traffic Authority head Rogelio Ebreo yesterday said he will also ask the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate Councilor Carlos Jose Lopez regarding the P2.1 million patrol boat and trailer donated to Bacolod City, and a truck he has not turned over.

This was after Lopez had asked the NBI to investigate Ebreo concerning the sale and issuance of body number sticker by the BTAO that several jeepney and taxi operators had complained about.

At a press conference yesterday, Ebreo challenged Lopez to produce the patrol boat. If the patrol boat is covered by a memorandum of agreement stating that it should be used against illegal fishing activities, it should be turned over to the city, he said.

Soldiers recover firearms
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Soldiers of the 11 th Infantry Battalion recovered guns and ammunition after an encounter with a group of suspected New People's Army rebels in Sitio Kabudburan, Brgy. Amontay, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

1Lt. Von Ryan Gomez, 11IB Civil Military Operations officer, said the Army troopers were conducting a security patrol in the place, when by suspected armed rebels, fired at them triggering about five minutes of firefight.

Gomez said the fleeing rebels left behind a 357 caliber revolver with six ammunition, a homemade 12 gauge shotgun with a magazine containing a live ammunition, and a back pack containing personal belongings and subversive documents that were recovered at the encounter site.