Guv seeks generators
amid power shortages
HITTING NEGROS DURING PEAK HOURS
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Gov. Isidro Zayco yesterday asked National Power Corp. president Cyril del Callar to address the power shortage that has been hitting Negros Occidental during peak hours by providing the province with 15 one-megawatt modular generators as a temporary solution.

Zayco made the appeal on the request of Central Negros Electric Cooperative officials.

CENECO general manager Sulpicio Legarde Jr. and Board Member Edward Gasambelo met with the governor yesterday to explain the power situation.

A procession around the provincial Capitol and the Hall of Justice  in Bacolod City where they will pray the rosary to seek God’s intervention against the continued cutting of trees in the buffer zone outside the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park will be held by members of the Save Mt. Kanlaon Coalition today.

Delia Locsin said the procession from 7 to 8 a.m. is being held before a hearing on their bid for a Temporary Restraining Order against the Energy Development Corp., Environment Secretary Lito Atienza, Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes and the Protected Area Management Board to be heard by Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Rodney Bolunia this morning.

The beheaded and mutilated body of a resident of Himamaylan was found Wednesday in a creek in Brgy. Bi-ao, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental.

The victim was identified by the police as Jose Ronnie Eseller, 31, of Brgy. Mambagaton, Himamaylan City.

Senior Inspector Gary Alan Resuma, Binalbagan police chief, yesterday said he believes that two suspects were involved in the brutal killing of Eseller.