Accident Supt. Antonietto Cañete, Himamaylan City police chief,  and Senior Supt. Samuel Nacion, Negros Occidental OIC police provincial director, with hooded witnesses in the background, during the submission of documentary evidence at the Provincial Prosecutor's Office yesterday* (Andy Alvarez photos)

12 face raps for murder
of Malabor, bodyguard
FILING TODAY, 2 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Charges will be filed today against 12 persons, seven of whom have been indentified, for the murder of Negros Occidental Board Member Renato Malabor, 55, and his bodyguard, Senior Supt. Samuel Nacion, OIC provincial police director, said last night.

The board member and his bodyguard Leody Jomilla, 52, were killed by a lone gunman in Isabela, Negros Occidental, on June 28.

The Philippine National Police late yesterday afternoon submitted documentary requirements to the Negros Occidental Provincial Prosecutor's Office, Nacion said.
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Charges filed vs.
couple for baby's death
BY SHIELA GELERA

A 19-year-old college student and his 20-year-old girlfriend are now facing infanticide charges after they left their newborn baby girl in a banana plantation near their school in Barangay Camingawan, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, early Saturday morning, the police said yesterday.

The baby, who was born at about 11 p.m. Friday, was found naked and bitten by ants at about 2:40 a.m. Saturday, Police Officer 3 Julieta Dimpo, Kabankalan Police Women and Children Protection Desk assistant head, said.

Dimpo said the baby was crying when she was being cleaned at the barangay clinic. She was later transferred to the Lorenzo D. Zayco District Hospital in Kabankalan, where she was declared dead on arrival. moremoremore

 

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to Aquino's SONA
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Locales from the different sectors of the Negros Oriental community expressed varied opinions on the sixth and final State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino III during the opening of the 16th Congress at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City yesterday.

While giving him a rating of between five and eight, on a scale of one to 10, the reactors said they still want to see the President follow through with certain concerns and other issues as he enters the final stretch of his term ending in mid-2016.

“Though there are things I was expecting to be included (in his SONA) but not mentioned, I felt the sincerity of his words,” Salustiano Jimenez, Department of Education division of schools superintendent of Negros Oriental, said. moremoremore