Juliana Carbon, lawyer of OIC general manager Noriel Bermudez of the Central Negros Electric Cooperative, said yesterday she has only good intentions for CENECO and expressing her opinion and echoing her client's sentiments do not constitute meddling.

"As a member-consumer of CENECO, I have all the right and the freedom to speak my mind regarding cooperative matters," Carbon said in a text message to the DAILY STAR.

Board president Eddie Guillem had asked Carbon, an assistant general manager of Bacolod City Water District, to leave CENECO alone after she claimed that the board's decision to declare the position of general manager was unfair to her client.

Negros mayors to meet
on slide in sugar prices

The mayors of Negros Occidental will meet Tuesday to discuss calls for new sugar allocations to arrest a feared downslide in farmgate prices, Manapla Mayor Manuel Escalante, Association of Chief Executives president, said yesterday.

Escalante said they will discuss the proposals and come up with a position on the matter. Gov. Joseph Marañon also said the SRA should come up with a solution to protect the farmers from a drop in prices.

The SRA is closely monitoring the sugar prices and will act accordingly, SRA Administrator James Ledesma said earlier. Sugar leaders, alarmed over a drop in sugar prices from about P1,100 per Lkg at the start of the milling season to a low of P930 per Lkg last week said they are recommending a new sugar allocation.

'Superferry very
successful in Bacolod'

The venture of Superferry in the Negros Navigation-dominated Bacolod City and Negros Occidental has turned out to be very successful, an official of Aboitiz Transport System said.

Judd Salas, ATS corporate communications officer, told the DAILY STAR yesterday their combined efforts in Bacolod are paying off.

Figures on local sales, however, were not immediately available.

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