Bacolod bets ink peace covenants
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Eight candidates running for top positions in Bacolod City signed peace covenants at the San Antonio Abad Parish in Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City yesterday, expressing their intention, support and participation to achieve a clean, honest, just, meaningful and peaceful elections.

The peace covenant signing was held after a 10 a.m. concelebrated mass officiated by Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra as the main celebrant during the celebration of the parish of its Patronal Fiesta.

Present were mayoralty candidates former Bacolod City Administrator Andrea Lizarez-Si, Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella and businessman Vladimir Gonzalez, aa well as, congressional candidates Undersecretary Anthony Golez Jr., Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, former Land Transportation Office-National Capital Region head Ricardo Tan, former Bacolod Rep. John Orola and former vice mayor Renecito Novero.

Actress-television host Kris Aquino is moving out of the home she shares with husband and basketball star James Yap, who is from Escalante, Negros Occidental, amid a controversy over a recent encounter with a rumored girlfriend of the latter, ABS-CBN News reported on its website yesterday.

. Aquino said she and her two sons, Joshua and Baby James, will be staying with her elder sister Pinky for the meantime.

But she clarified she and Yap have not formally split up, and that they are just taking some time off to sort out their problems, the report said.

Mayor Magdaleno Peña maintains that the roads in Pulupandan town where he has set up outposts to prevent certain people from passing through are privately owned and will stay, Inspector Joshua Villasis, Pulupandan police chief, said yesterday.

At a coordinating conference of the Commission on Elections, Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines at the Capitol in Bacolod City Friday Villasis asked Provincial Election Officer Jessie Suarez how to handle outposts set up on privately owned roads in Pulupandan where selected persons are barred from passing

Suarez said that if the roads had been used for public access in the past, then the power of eminent domain exists and owners will have to get a Temporary Restraining Order from the court to bar people from entry.