2 face homicide raps
for death of Bacoleño

A 21-year-old department store employee died from head injuries after a mauling by his fellow bar patrons in Bacolod City yesterday, the police said.

Marvin Panes died at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital at about 12:25 p.m. yesterday, about 12 hours after being unconscious after he was mauled allegedly by Freddie Jance and Robert Banaga, police records show.

Panes, a native of Sara, Iloilo province, hit the pavement head first near Rizal Elementary School at Araneta Street, Bacolod, when he was attacked by Jance and Banaga, at about 12:30 a.m. yesterday, Police Station 1 investigators, said.

Jance, 26, and Banaga, both of Lopue’s Village Phase 2, Brgy. Singcang-Airport, said they were left with no choice but to defend themselves when Panes attacked them after the victim and his friend, Rey Decendario, 21, followed them from a bar at Cuadra Street, Bacolod.

They said Panes, who was intoxicated at that time, had threatened them without any provocation at the bar where the victim had also argued with bar attendants.

Jance and Banaga, who both admitted they have had a few drinks before the incident, said it was only Panes who attacked them while Decendario tried to restrain him, and that, they did not mean to kill him.

Panes’ father, Melvin, 54, said he cannot believe his youngest son is now dead as he had just graduated from college with a degree in information technology.

Jance and Banago said they are willing to ask forgiveness from Panes’ family, but Marvin’s father said they will pursue the homicide charges against them.*PP.

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Renew city stickers, BTAO urges

About 300 public utility vehicles, including jeepneys and taxis, were impounded by the Bacolod Traffic Management Unit yesterday at the start of its crackdown on PUJ’s that do not have new conduction stickers on them, TMU chief, Senior Inspector Levy Pangue, said.

The parking space of the Bacolod City Police Office was filled with jeepneys as traffic enforcers directed drivers to bring their vehicles to the compound yesterday afternoon.

“It’s like a garage,” an enforcer noted.

Pangue said they had to hold the PUJ’s after two months of giving extensions to their operators, for the processing of the requirements for new stickers.

Out of the estimated 6,000 registered PUJ units in Bacolod with the old yellow and white stickers, only a third of them have been given the green and white ones so far, he said.

Pangue said the acquisition of stickers is an annual requirement for jeepney and taxi units in Bacolod and their renewal started in January.

An operator will have to spend about P500 to get a business permit, franchise, and official receipts, which are the requirements for a sticker, Pangue said.

Benjie Hilario, a driver plying the Bata-Libertad route, said he understands the crackdown as the operators have been given enough time to secure the new stickers.

The enforcers  also gave them consideration yesterday by starting the apprehensions in the afternoon, when they had  already eared some money.

An employee of the RJG Lines, which operates 40  jeepneys plying the Bata-Libertad route, meanwhile said they have to bear with the apprehension of their 12 vehicles because they have not yet complied with the requirements.*PP

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