Two persons who swindled a prominent Bacolod lawyer and civic leader of about P3 million in jewelry and cash yesterday morning are now being hunted by the Bacolod police, with the help of the National Bureau of Investigation, City Police Director Pedro Merced said.

Merced said they have sought NBI help in coming up with cartographic sketches of the two suspects, so their arrest can be hastened.

He said it appears that lawyer Luz Dato-Lacson, 79, was victimized by the "Budol-Budol" gang. Her description of the swindlers being in their 60s does not, however, fit that of other gang members who have operated in the city before, Merced said.

Balikbayan held up, too
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

Don't give anybody the opportunity to hold you up.

Bacolod City police director Senior Supt. Pedro Merced gave this warning to the public following another incident involving a Balikbayan who was held up and robbed by two unidentified persons at the Bacolod reclamation area yesterday morning.

Myca Bahin Kintanar, 31, a bank teller of the Bank of America in San Diego, California, USA, and her niece, Armena Guillermo, 20, reported to Police Precinct 2 that two unidentified persons held them up and took their bags containing valuables and cash.

CHED, PRC stands differ
on WNC case
BY CARLA P. GOMEZ

Puno: CHED is willing to release all results but PRC won't.*

Commission on Higher Education chairman Carlito Puno yesterday said the CHED is willing to allow the release of all the West Negros College nursing graduates' board examination results, but Professional Regulation Commission chair Leonor Rosero said the PRC is standing pat on its decision to release only the results of those who had loads of 35 units and below a semester.

Apparently that will mean the release of the examination results of only about five of the WNC graduates who took the tests in December, Puno told the DAILY STAR.

There are 599 WNC nursing graduates waiting for the release of their December board examination results, Nelia Gonzales, lawyer of the graduates from Iloilo who is also one of the examinees, said.