Sugar prices hold
amid tight supply
BY CALAR GOMEZ

Millgate prices of "B" or domestic sugar held above P1,000 per Lkg on bidding yesterday allaying fears of sugar producers that the removal of the "C" or reserve allocation would cause it to fall.

Sugar Regulatory Administrator James Ledesma yesterday said prices stayed above P1,000 per Lkg for all sugar, "so there was really no cause for all that noise."

Ledesma had removed the "C" allocation late last month because of the tightness of the domestic sugar supply in the market that has caused millgate sugar prices to reach P1,030 per Lkg and above causing fears that this would cause retail sugar prices to go up.

ON BOARD EXAMS
Wait for PRC letters,
nursing students told
BY MA. DIOSA LABISTE

Bacolod. Rep. Monico Puentevella yesterday said he has asked the Professional Regulations Commission to explain why it has not released the test results of West Negros College students who took the recent nursing board examinations and will also seek the help of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the matter.

He said that out of 604 examinees whose results were not released, 400 are reportedly graduates of WNC in Bacolod City.

He said some of the WNC examines accompanied by Ernesto Arbolario, WNC vice president for external affairs, met with him early this week to discuss the PRC's failure to release the results and to seek his help.

Dike breaks,
village threatened
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Breaches in a dike have placed a barangay in EB Magalona town in danger of losing about 250 houses to constant flooding, its barangay captain warned yesterday.

Barangay Captain Andrito Malunes said the a small portion of the dike in the fishpond of Boy Gamboa in Barangay Tomongtong broke on Dec. 16 but on New Year's Day heavy flooding was noted in the barangay during high tide. This led to the discovery that there were more and larger breaches in the 700 meter dike that had been keeping the water from the sea out of the barangay, he said.

The flooding of about 60 percent of the barangay during high tide endangers about 250 homes occupied by about 2,000 residents, he said.