Another libel case was slapped against the Bohol Sunday Post, this time, courtesy of gubernatorial candidate Carmen Mayor Che Toribio de los Reyes. The latest libel suit is the third in a string of libel cases the Post is facing in a span of two years. The Post publisher has two pending cases in the regional trial courts of Talibon and Carmen. The libel brought by Mayor Che stemmed from a story that saw print in the weekly written by Ven Rebo Arigo of the Capitol Edcom, the media arm of the provincial government. The alleged libelous article stemmed from a radio interview featuring a certain Razilyn Rosalinda Onez-Tecson of Carmen town. The libel case was filed last week before Associate City Prosecutor Fara Ricarda Parras-Matuod where she scheduled the preliminary investigation on May 21 at her office in the Halls of Justice building.

In that radio interview granted by the program anchors of DYRD’s Inyong Alagad, Onez-Tecson, who admitted to be a former aide of Mayor Che, declared that the Carmen mayor was an alleged drug user. In the same interview, the former aide also accused the lady mayor of illegal drug trafficking. Efforts by DYRD to contact Mayor Che proved futile as she refused to take calls from the radio station if ever she was accused of any issue reaching the top-rated radio program. For the publication which also saw print in the Bohol Chronicle, the paper’s publisher Bingo Dejaresco and its associate editor Peter Dejaresco were also named respondents of the libel case. Other than the Post publisher and the two Dejarescos, the accuser-former aide was also included as respondent.