BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The call for Sugar Regulatory Administration head Herminigildo Serafica to step down from his post continues to snowball. Three more
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(PNA Bacolod file photo) BACOLOD CITY - The largest sugar bloc in Negros Island has warned groups that will participate in the importation under the Sugar Regulatory Administration's (SRA) Sugar Order (SO) No. 3 that the move will be considered "abetting an illegal act". The statement was issued on Friday by the more than 10,000-member Associacion de Agricultores de la Carlota y Pontevedra Inc. (AALCPI) based in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental, whose general manager David Alba is an intervenor in a case that secured preliminary injunctions against SO 3. "Let this serve as a warning to all traders and importers who will join this mockery. We will petition that all imported sugar brought in under this order will be declared as smuggled sugar," Alba said. On May 2, SRA chief Hermegenildo Serafica released Memorandum Circular 11, stating that SRA is now processing applications from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao traders, except Western Visayas, to import 200,000 me
BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN An intervenor in a case that secured preliminary injunctions against the Sugar Regulatory Administration has warned legal actions