'Report on VMC raps
baseless, malicious'
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Businessman William Dy of Roxas Avenue, Barangay 39, Bacolod, yesterday furnished the DAILY STAR a copy of the police blotter he filed before Bacolod Police Precinct 8 on Jan. 11 stating that the press statement of Victorias Milling Co. that was reported in the Visayan DAILY STAR on Jan. 7 resulted in "too much shame and discredit" on his part.

Dy said the report that Victorias Milling Co. had filed a complaint against him for the alleged illegal withdrawal of sugar amounting to P750,000 from Victorias Milling Co. is "baseless and malicious."

The report was based on a press statement sent to the DAILY STAR on Jan. 6, by VMC, that said it had filed a criminal case for estafa against William Dy, also known as Wilson Dy, of Bacolod City.

Motorcycle-riding men
hold up cashier, driver
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

Three unidentified persons on a motorcycle reportedly held up a cashier and a driver of the Sargaso Construction and Development Corporation at Burgos Street, Brgy. 18, in Bacolod City, at about 9:45 a.m. yesterday.

Cashier Marietta Pillone Labis, 51, married, of Purok Kabuhi, Brgy. 10, told the police she withdrew P114,000 in cash from the Land Bank of the Philippines intended for the salary of the firm's employees, and was accompanied by Renato Deramon Estrella, 45, single, of Purok Maanyag, Brgy. Alijis, driver of the Nissan Pick-up service vehicle, police reports said.

On their way back to the office, Labis asked Estrella to stop at Lacson-Burgos streets where she had to buy something, police reports said.

'B' sugar further increases
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Domestic sugar prices increased further on bidding in Negros Occidental yesterday.

Enrique Rojas, National Federation of Sugarcane Planters president, said "B" or domestic sugar sold at P1,097 per Lkg and "A" or US market sugar at P1,051 per Lkg.

At Hawaiian Philippines Co. "B" sold at P1,085.82 and "A" at P1,098.92.

Franklin Fuentebella, chairman of the Planters Association of Southern Negros cooperative, said at the Binalbagan Isabela Sugar Co. sugar sold at P1,092 up P94 for "B" and at P1,050 up P15 for "A".