The Paglaum Sports Complex will no longer be used as a training facility for the Negros athletes joining the Western Visayas Regional Athletics Association Meet until the unpaid bills with the BACIWA and CENECO are settled, Manuel De Oro, officer-in-charge of the Provincial Sports and Development Office, said yesterday.

The training of the Negrense athletes has been hampered because the water and electricity supply of the PSC were disconnected after the 2005 Southeast Asian Games since it has arrears of P215,703.77 with BACIWA and P381,419.99 with CENECO, incurred from 1990 to 1995, De Oro said.

The unpaid bills were registered in the account of the Negros Occidental Provincial Government because the Capitol only turned over the management of the sports complex to the Department of Education in 1995.

De Oro said the athletes practising at Paglaum will transfer at the Panaad Park and Stadium tomorrow.

All of the athletes will be accommodated at Panaad with some of them staying at the booths of the different cities and towns of Negros Occidental because the billeting quarters inside the stadium are not enough, he said.

The Provincial Government is currently discussing the matter of unpaid bills with BACIWA and CENECO, he said, adding that the athletes will only return training at Paglaum once the problem is settled.

The PSC, which had been abandoned by the DepEd from 1995 to 2005, was rehabilitated last year to host the men's football hostilities of the SEA Games.*CIT

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