Charlie Balbon Sr., who remains on top of the list of drug personalities in Silay City, is not yet off the hook even after posting bail of P330,000 on Tuesday for violation of RA 7610, or the Abuse Act.

This is because multiple rape charges were filed against Balbon also on Tuesday before the Silay City Prosecutor's Office, police chief Clestino Guara said yesterday

Guara said the filing of criminal complaints against Balbon stemmed from his alleged molestation of a 12-year-old-girl in Sitio Patuloy, Barangay Mambulac, Silay City from February last year to February 10 this year.

'PRC threat to file suits
a face-saving move'
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A student of West Negros College yesterday called the threat of the Professional Regulation Commission and Board of Nursing officials to file charges a "desperate face-saving move" after having to agree to release the board examination results of all 599 WNC nursing examines at a budget hearing of the House of Representatives.

Nelia Gonzales, lawyer of her 145 WNC nursing classmates from Iloilo, was reacting to the statement of PRC chairperson Leonor Rosero and Board of Nursing chairperson Eufemia Octaviano, that the release of the results will be without prejudice to the filing of charges against the examinees and the WNC College of Nursing dean, Zenaida Hilado, by the PRC.

Action-packed day
for marines in Leyte
BY CARLA GOMEZ

There is never a dull day in Guinsaugon, Leyte, where a multi-national team of rescuers are risking their lives searching for landslide survivors.

A US Marine and a long-lost relative were reunited, and seven Taiwanese rescuers marooned in a field of mud themselves had to be rescued by a Chinook helicopter yesterday, Commander Manuel "Don" Biadog, chaplain of the United States 3rd Marine Expedition Force, said.

Biadog, who is originally from Talisay City, Negros Occidental told the DAILY STAR that US Marine Sergeant Kim Miller was reconciled with Atilano Susaya, his late grandfather's brother, and one of his few surviving relatives in the Philippines.