The bloated body of a 16-year-old girl believed to have been raped and killed was recovered by the police in a creek near the Gold Crest Subdivision in Brgy. Bata, Bacolod City, at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday.

The body of Joan Pasolan Barrios, a first year high school student of Sagasa National High School in Brgy. Sagasa, Bago City, was decomposing when it was found by an 8-year-old boy Monday afternoon, Senior Insp. Joeresty Coronica, Precinct 3 commander, yesterday told the DAILY STAR.

Precinct 3 case investigator SPO2 Jessie Baylon said Albert John Dono, and two of his friends were scavenging near the creek when he spotted the body of Barrios whose eyes were bulging and her tongue sticking out.

Boracay resort owner
found dead in room
BY NESTOR BURGOS

ILOILO CITY - A Filipina resort owner married to a Swiss national was found stabbed dead yesterday inside her room at their resort on Boracay Island in Aklan.

Araceli Villanueva-Hug, 48, bore a stab wound in the chest, Chief Insp. Jess Mendez, chief of the Boracay Special Tourist Police Office, said in a telephone interview.

Hug is owner of the Bamboo Beach Resort near Boat Station 3 on the southern end of the island-resort. Her husband Paul is in Switzerland, Mendez said.

Nursing grads file raps
vs. PRC at CHR
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Twenty-two of the 59 West Negros College graduates who were not allowed to take the June 11 and 12 nursing board examinations yesterday filed complaints against Professional Regulation Commission chairperson Leonor Tripon-Rosero and other PRC officials before the Commission on Human Rights in Bacolod City.

In their complaints, they said that after the PRC had granted them permission to take the nursing board examinations they were humiliated when they were turned away from testing centers in Manila on the day of the tests on June 11 without any prior warning.

Also included in their complaint were Perla Sayana, head of the PRC Application Division, who had granted the WNC students permission to take the examinations, and several PRC personnel at the testing centers.