Lizares passes away
a day before birthday
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Talisay City Mayor Anthony Valderrama Lizares.*

Talisay City Mayor Anthony Valderrama Lizares, who would have turned 39 today, passed away at the Riverside Medical Center in Bacolod City from multiple organ failure at 3:15 p.m. yesterday.

Lizares, who was suffering from end stage liver disease, was hospitalized on Jan. 1 and was placed in the Intensive Care Unit Sunday night after he suffered from massive bleeding and became comatose, Dr. John Ledesma, his attending physician, said.

Lizares was also admitted to the Riverside Medical Center around December of 2004 and his liver then was only 30 to 35 percent functioning, Ledesma told the DAILY STAR.

2 more held up
BY DONALYN GUERRERO

Two women lost their cash and jewelry to unidentified persons in separate robbery hold-up and bag slashing incidents in Bacolod City yesterday.

Mary Jessica Guzman Lanada, of Lot 7, Block 13, Villa Soledad, Sta. Fe in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City, told the DAILY STAR, she was standing beside the Keppel Bank at the corner of Rizal and San Juan streets in Bacolod City when four unidentified persons, including two women, blocked her and forcibly grabbed her bag at about 10 a.m. yesterday.

When she resisted, Lanada said one of the suspects poked a gun at her 3-year-old son and threatened to shoot him if she would not give them her money.

Binalbagan mayor injured,
one dies in road accident
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Binalbagan Mayor Emmanuel Aranda, 52, was injured and a man on board a cart being drawn by a carabao was killed in a vehicular accident at Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran, at about 5 a.m. yesterday, the police reported.

Aranda, who reportedly suffered from a bump on the forehead, was confined at the Riverside Medical Center yesterday and could not be reached for comment.

A Hinigaran police blotter report said killed in the mishap was Arnold Gumban Lorza, 33, of Barangay Gargato, Hinigaran.