EIGHT mayors in Bohol province were among those suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman along with Bohol Gov. Erico Aristotle Aumentado over the construction and operation of a resort in the middle of the Chocolate Hills.

Under preventive suspension were Restituto Suarez III (Sagbayan town), Antonino Jumawid (Batuan town), Elizabeth Pace (Catigbian town), Eugeniano Ibarra (Clarin town), Norman Palacio (Bilar town), Michael Doria (Sierra Bullones town), Dionisio Neil Balite (Valencia town), and Conchita Delos Reyes (Carmen town).