IN MOISES PADILLA
Town gov't shuts down
businesses of ex-mayor
BY ADRIAN NEMES III

Three business establishments and a gasoline station owned and managed by former Mayor Francisco Nazareno and his family were shut down by the Moises Padilla town government yesterday for alleged lack of business permits.

Nazareno told the DAILY STAR that their grocery store and hardware located at a building they also own beside the Moises Padilla public market, were simultaneously shut down yesterday afternoon by personnel of the town government who constructed a plywood fence in front of the establishments.

Nazareno said town personnel did the same at their retail store in front of the police station and gasoline station that their family manages in front of the Moises Padilla Municipal Hall.

Ma, baby killed in accident
BY SHIELA GELERA

A 6-month-old baby girl and her mother were run over by a 10-wheeler wing van at about 2:30 p.m. yesterday, at Burgos Street- Circumferencial Road in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City.

Jilian Arosa and her mother, Ma. Fe, 30, of Brgy. Vista Alegre in Bacolod were declared dead on arrival, at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital, Senior Insp. Argel Ancheta, Station 4 chief, said.

The Arosas were crossing the Circumferential Road when they were hit by the wing van driven by Rudy Palanog, 36, of Iloilo City, that was travelling north, Ancheta said.

Sugar conversion good: guv
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Negros Occidental Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. said yesterday that the planned conversion by the Sugar Regulatory Administration of the country's outstanding stock of "D" or world market sugar into "B" or domestic sugar will be advantageous to producers and consumers.

This will mean the producers will earn more from their sugar, and additional supply poured into the domestic market will halt the rise of retail prices that will be good for consumers, he added.

The country has no shortage of sugar, the sugar allocated for the world market in warehouses just needs to be released into the domestic market, he said.