PCPR URGES
Don't join pro Cha-cha
assemblies Saturday
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Do not participate in the nationally coordinated barangay assemblies for Charter change this weekend, the Promotion of Church People's Response-Negros urged the people yesterday.

House Speaker Jose de Venecia had said that the people's initiative for Cha-cha would be launched nationwide this Saturday, when he was in Bacolod Monday.

To get a people's initiative off the ground, the signatures of 12 percent, or 4.8 million, of Filipino voters, with not less than 3 percent in any congressional district throughout the Philippines is needed, he said.

NPA admits staging
raid in Escalante
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

MANILA - The New People's Army has claimed responsibility for the recent raid of a police detachment in Brgy. Malasibog, Escalante City, during which, nine firearms, including an M-60 machine gun were seized from the occupants.

The People's War bulletin of the New People's Army said the raid of a police detachment in Brgy. Malasibog, about eight kilometers away from the poblacion, caught offguard its 10 occupants, two policemen and eight militiamen, who were eating their breakfast on March 19.

It added that the raid and seizure of nine firearms, including a light machine gun, took place without a single shot being fired.

BON hearings set in
Bacolod for WNC grads
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Board of Nursing members will hear the side of the West Negros College nursing graduates against whom they had filed charges at the BAYS Center in Bacolod City starting Monday, Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella said yesterday.

Puentevella said this was agreed on in Congress yesterday where hearings were being conducted on the budget of the Professional Regulation Commission.

The hearings of the WNC graduates were initially scheduled to all be in Manila.