BREDCO files raps
vs. mayor, 8 others
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

The Bacolod Real Estate Development Corp. filed a civil case in court yesterday against the Mayor and eight other city officials for the passage of City Ordinance 454, or the “takeover ordinance” involving the seaport operations and the unfinished portion of the reclamation project at reclamation area in Bacolod City .

BREDCO, which is represented by its president, Simplicio Palanca, filed the case against Bacolod City , Mayor Evelio Leonardia, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, Councilors Al Victor Espino, Dindo and Kevin Ramos, Homer Bais, Greg Gasataya, Celia Flor and Roberto Rojas.

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia signed Tuesday an executive order creating a task force for the pre-takeover preparations and actual takeover of port and port operations of the Bacolod Port.

The creation of the task force is pursuant to City Ordinance No. 454, Series of 2007 or the “takeover ordinance” involving the seaport operations and the unfinished portion of the reclamation project at the reclamation area in Bacolod City , that was approved by the Mayor Friday.

In approving C.O. 454, Leonardia said the proposal for the takeover of the management and operation of the port was anchored, first on the various violations by the Bacolod Real Estate Development Corp. of the Comprehensive Revised Reclamation Agreement it had entered into with the city, which have not been corrected until today.

The body of a minor, a victim of molestation, was found Tuesday night at Km. 112 in Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog, Negros Occidental, police said.

In Victorias City , a 42-year-old housewife identified as Imelda Manapo, was brutally killed and also sexually molested by a still unidentified suspect in Brgy. 10, the National Bureau of Investigation said.

The latest victim of rape-slay was 8-year-old Lilibeth Nucos, a grade 1 pupil of Magsaysay Elementary School in Brgy. Dancalan, Ilog.