Japanese offer power
alternative for Negros
BY CARLA GOMEZ

Japanese experts introduced ways to improve the capacity of sugar mills to conserve energy and at the same time produce much needed power for Negros Occidental at a forum held yesterday at the L’Fisher Chalet in Bacolod City.

Representatives of sugar mills in Negros Occidental were very interested in what the Japanese experts were offering because everybody wants to be efficient and to have an additional source of income by 2015, when tariffs on imported sugar entering the country are lifted, Frank Carbon, president of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said.

International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer executive director, Masami Hayakawa, and Yoichi Takaishi, the center’s Global Environment Unit director, said their organization aims to transfer Japan’s leading systems for environmental conservation to contribute to the mitigation of environmental issues and the sustainable development of the world economy.

The Regional Trial Court Branch 51 granted the demurer to evidence filed by Bacolod businesswoman Helen Aguadilla, and ordered the dismissal of the murder charge filed against her by the family of an alleged mistress of her husband.

The murder case was filed by Sandy Biaco on January 22, 2006 against Monroe Nielden Pitong, Janse Amisola, Roming Calalang, Mark Enriquez and Aguadilla, who, she claimed, was the mastermind in the killing of his (Biaco’s) stepdaughter, Irene de la Peña.

De la Peña, 17, was stabbed in the chest on December 19, 2005, and died in the hospital on January 6, 2006, or 18 days later.

Alicia Morales-Arroyo, the wife of Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo Jr., confirmed yesterday that his remains will be brought to the fifth district of Negros Occidental for a brief wake next week.

The body of Arroyo is tentatively set to arrive in Negros Occidental Tuesday or Wednesday for the wake, Negros Occidental Board Member Melvin Ibañez said yesterday.

Ibañez said the Arroyo family was making the arrangements and he is not certain yet whether the wake will be in Binalbagan or at the Redemptorist Church in Bacolod City.