Rookie cop, brother in trouble with the law
A 28-year-old police rookie faces charges after he and his brother caused a commotion inside a bar in Quezon City and then picked a fight with policemen who tried to arrest him before dawn Tuesday. PO1 Clifford Bassig Jr., assigned at the Sta. Maria Municipal Station in Laguna province, and brother Florentino, are facing charges of resisting arrest, alarm and scandal as well as drunk and disorderly conduct. Bassig will also be charged administratively for allegedly bringing his service firearm inside the 1025 KTV bar. SPO2 Ronaldo Correa of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Galas police station said the incident happened at around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday inside the bar at the corner of Araneta Avenue and E. Rodriguez Boulevard in Barangay Doña Aurora, New Manila. Correa said that bar employees sought their help after they saw a gun hidden in the waistband of Bassig’s pants. When operatives of the QCPD Station 11 accosted Bassig, who was drinking with his brother, he allegedly challenged them to a fight. Jeannette I. Andrade
Mabini’s 144th birth anniversary celebration
The 144th birth anniversary of Apolinario Mabini will be commemorated today at the Mabini Shrine on the Polytechnic University of the Philippines campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila. Mabini was adviser and member of Emilio Aguinaldo’s Cabinet. A wreath-laying ceremony will be conducted by officials and representatives of the National Historical Institute, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, Manila City government, PUP, National Council on Disability Affairs and Mabini’s kin. There will also be a short commemorative program with speeches by PUP president Dante G. Guevarra and Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim. Lydia Mabini-Figueroa, a descendant of Mabini, will also speak. For more information, contact Maria Edna Santiago of NHI at 5231019.
11 teenagers picked up by cops
Eleven teenagers were arrested at dawn Tuesday for carrying unlicensed guns and knives after a riot in Caloocan City in which a man was allegedly killed. Also seized by police were a wooden paddle wrapped with electrical tape and a metal tube measuring about 18 inches long which police believed was used in hazing rites. “The youth were arrested after reports from residents in the area of an earlier riot where a man was supposedly killed,” Chief Insp. Cresencio Galvez, head of the Caloocan police’s intelligence division, said. He added that those arrested were aged 18 and below. “We have been receiving reports about frequent riots and we had the area under surveillance for some time,” Galvez said. “They belong to a group which has been at odds for quite some time with another group,” he added. The minors who were arrested would be turned over to the social welfare department while the older ones would remain in police custody, he said. Nancy C. Carvajal
