Newsbriefs

POLICE ASSIST PROBE ON GUN PARTS

THE Firearms Explosives Security Agency and Guards Supervisory Section (FESAGSS) of the Police Regional Office (PRO) in Central Visayas is helping to track down the real owner of the gun shipment from California.

FESAGSS chief Supt. Rex Derilo said his office is closely coordinating with the Bureau of Customs on the matter.

“We are closely monitoring and coordinating with BOC”, said Derilo.

Derilo said his office shares information with the BOC on the identity of the owners of seized items.

Last month, BOC intercepted two container vans from California that arrived at the Cebu port just days apart.

The first van, mis-declared as personal effects,  contained gun parts and ammunition and was consigned to a one Renato Ramos of JP Rizal Street, Banilad, Cebu City.  His named turned out to be fictitious.

The second van was opened last Nov. 29 and was consigned D’ Golden House Trading Co. in barangay Mabolo.

The van contained truck heads, household goods, bullets and gun parts.

Nazario R. Canono, owner of  D’ Golden House Trading Co. came out last week and denied ownership of the items saying his company was just used as the consignee of the shipment. /Correspondent Chito O. Aragon

LANDFILL CLOSURE DELAYED ANEW

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama has to move again the schedule of the closure of the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill.

Rama wants the landfill to cease operations on Dec. 10 and start disposing garbage in private facility in Pulog, Consolacion.

He is expected to call for a press conference at 4 p.m. today for the signing of the cessation order that would prohibit dumping of garbage at the landfill.

“Pressumably, if i sign that, we ought to be ready,” said Rama during his noontime press conference yesterday.

He later met with members of the City Solid Waste Management Board to further discuss the closure plan of the landfill.

Councilor Edu Rama Jr., the council’s public services committee chairman, said the city still has more preparation to do.

He will announce his plans for the landfill also in a press conference today.

Rama has strictly required garbage segregation in April as part of the preparation to close the Inayawan landfill.

The closure of the landfill was initially scheduled on Nov. 7 but since the city is not prepared yet, the schedule has to be moved to a later date. /Chief of reporters Doris C. Bongcac

RAPS AGAINST TEACHER DISMISSED

The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas dismissed the administrative charges filed against a public school teacher who allegedly inflicted injuries on her student.

The anti-graft office said the evidence are not sufficient to hold Susana Pahayahay guilty of misconduct.

Pahayahay, public school teacher of Taloyong Elementary School in Badian, allegedly pinched the ear of his student.

She was also allegedly squeezed the thigh of the student as well as hit the latter’s hand with a stick last Jan. 12 this year. Pahayahay denied the allegations.

She said the accusations are fabricated.

The victim who was assisted by his uncle in filing the complaint eventually executed an affidavit of desistance.

But with or without the complainant’s desistance, the Ombudsman said there was no sufficient evidence to prove the claims of the student. /Reporter Ador Vincent S. Mayol