DAR auditor stabbed
dead in Bacolod
BY PATRICK PANGILINAN

An auditor of the Department of Agrarian Reform was stabbed dead and his naked body was found early yesterday in a grassy area about 100 meters from his home at Fortune Towne, in Brgy. Estefania, Bacolod City, at about 5 a.m. yesterday.

Chief Inspector Santiago Rapiz, Police Station 4 commander, said they do not know yet the reason behind the fatal stabbing of Ronnie Sorallo, 46, an internal auditor at the DAR provincial at San Sebastian Street, in Bacolod City.

Sorallo sustained multiple stab wounds indicating that they could have been inflicted by more than one attacker, Rapiz said.

 “We urge the leaders and the people of Bacolod City to unite in the interest of solving the problem of flooding,” Presidential Spokesman Rolando Anthony Golez Jr., told the DAILY STAR last night.

He said flooding has already, and will continue to destroy properties, hurt people, and to displace many families during rainy season.

The Regional Disaster Coordinating Council, in support and coordination with the different local agencies, the City Disaster Coordinating Council, the Office of the Lone District of Bacolod, and other stakeholders, will help facilitate a master plan to address the short, medium and long term problems of flooding in the city with proposed technical, structural and non-structural solutions, Golez said.

MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday, asked private corporations to do more to ease the effects of rising food and fuel prices on their workers.

This came even as the Department of Labor conceded the government could not order a hike in wages by May 1 -- Labor Day -- despite widespread calls for salary increases.

"We encourage and urge big private companies to make available to their employees non-wage benefits like rice, canned goods, shuttle service and other benefits, especially specific sectors which have posted big earnings like the telecommunications sector, and oil companies and others," Arroyo said..