A barangay captain was injured and his son was killed when 17 armed men reportedly encircled their house in Barangay Libertad, Escalante and attacked them at about 6:45 last night, Vice Mayor Santiago Barcelona said.

Barcelona said 17 armed men surrounded the house of Libertad Barangay Captain Fernando Demalerio and his son Filjun, 28, who went out of the house, was shot and killed.

Demalerio told the DAILY STAR that when he reached the gate of his house with his wife, Tessie, from a nearby store the armed men shouted “dapa, dapa (get down, get down)” and his son came out of the house.

Ceneco owes me – Guillem;
protest at coop assembly set
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A former president of Central Negros Electric Cooperative yesterday said it is CENECO that owes him money, while a militant group said it will stage a protest at the power coop's general assembly Saturday to oppose the contract to purchase coal power from Cebu .

Roberto Montelibano, president of Central Negros Electric Cooperative, Wednesday said 12 former CENECO board members are being asked to pay their accounts, and that the controversial Memorandum of Agreement signed between the coop and KEPCO-Salcon Power Corp. will not be taken up during CENECO's general assembly at Colegio San Agustin Bacolod.

BAYAN Negros secretary general Felipe Levy Gelle Jr. said his group condemns the CENECO Board for skirting the issue by deliberately dropping the power supply deals from the agenda of the assembly.

Two meted 40 years
for rape-slay
BY CARLA GOMEZ

A spurned brother-in-law and a man who openly showed his desire for a 14-year-old girl were sentenced recently to 40 years imprisonment each for raping and brutally killing her in Barangay Bacong, Bago City .

Executive Judge Frances Guanzon of the Regional Trial Court of Bago City found accused Noel Rico Auman and Arvin Jaro guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the complex crime of rape with homicide and sentenced them to suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua.

“The abominable crime committed by both accused should be meted a penalty of death,” Guanzon said in her decision promulgated Oct. 31, but Republic Act 9346 prohibits its imposition.