Negros mayors' kin
among Liga winners
Guv airs preferences
for SK, brgy provincial heads
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Gov. Joseph Marañon yesterday said the incumbent Liga ng mga Barangay representative on the Negros Occidental provincial board, George Gitano of Pontevedra, will seek reelection to the post on Dec. 29.

Marañon also expressed his preference for Cadiz SK president Jeb Marie Becaro to head the SK provincial federation that will hold their election on Dec. 17.

This is because we want a balanced representation on the provincial board -- the provincial head of the councilors' league is Raul Rivera of Kabankalan City in the south, Gitano is from central Negros and Becaro is from the north, he said.

3 Panay provinces
join transport strike
BY NESTOR BURGOS JR.

ILOILO CITY – Transport groups in three provinces on Panay Island aim to paralyze public transport for two days starting today to dramatize their protest against repeated oil price increases.

Jeepney and tricyle drivers in Iloilo and Aklan will stop plying their routes starting midnight today until midnight Friday, while transport groups in Capiz will hold their one-day strike starting midnight Thursday.

Edgar Salarda, president of the Pinag-isang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Piston-Iloilo), said 22 jeepney operators and drivers associations under the Iloilo City Alliance of Drivers Associations will join the strike.

Ceres won't join but
we'll succeed: UNDOC
BY CARLA GOMEZ

The biggest bus company on Negros Island , Ceres Liner, is not joining the two-day transportation strike set Thursday and Friday, Rainer Ferales, a manager of the firm, said yesterday.

We will continue to serve the public and will ask Senior Supt. Rosendo Franco, Negros Occidental police director, to ensure that we are allowed to ply the roads.

But Jessie Ortega, United Negros Drivers Operators Center secretary general, said Ceres in the past also did not join transport strike but they succeeded in paralyzing public transportation.