10 from Bacolod
on DFA watchlist
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Department of Foreign Affairs has instructed the Philippine Embassy in the United States to include in its watch lists the names of 10 individuals from Bacolod City, who failed to return to the Philippines after the staging of the Senior League World Series in the US from 2003 to 2005.

They are controversial softball coach Reynaldo "Guy" Fuentes, Grace Zaragoza, Roselo Javellana, Teresita and Francis Fuentes, Christian Mae Claver, Antonio Kilayko, Emmanuel Declines, Edwin Abellana and Marilyn Parcia. DFA officer-in-charge Pedro Chan, in his letter to the Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod dated Dec. 21, 2005, said that upon verification with the Philippine Consulate General in New York and San Francisco, the names of the 10 individuals did not appear in their respective consular databases of passport applicants and on the database for Assistance-to-Nationals.

Teacher, hubby
die in mishap
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

The so-called "killer highway" of Bago City claimed two more lives on Saturday, bringing to six the number of commuters killed from Dec. 20 last year to Jan. 14, police records show.

Elementary school teacher Liza Pagulong, 50, and her husband, Martin, 52, died Saturday evening after they were ran over by a 10-wheeler tanker loaded with molasses in Brgy. Sampinit, Bago City.

Police investigations show that Pagulong, riding on an Aura motorcycle driven by her husband, were on their way to Moises Padilla from Bacolod City, when the accident took place.

Lakas supports GMA stay,
agrees to speed up Cha-cha
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The Lakas-CMD national directorate Saturday night agreed to fast track the passage of Charter change and support President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in fulfilling her constitutional mandate to serve office until 2010, Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella said yesterday.

Puentevella said former President Fidel Ramos who attended the national directorate meeting held at Malacañang, attended by 120 Lakas-CMD national and regional officers and stalwarts, agreed to abide by the decision of the party.

Ramos was earlier quoted as saying that Arroyo should end her term by 2007.