UNPAID TRAFFIC AIDES
AFTER slaving for weeks without pay, personnel of the Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) may receive their back salaries before the end of this month.
Citom director Raffy Yap yesterday said the City Treasurer’s Office is preparing a P44-million allocation to cover the salaries of all 562 personnel who weren’t paid for nearly a month.
Traffic aides receive P8,000 a month. Out of 562 personnel, there are 289 traffic aides, 136 parking aides and 137 office workers./Correspondent Edison A. Delos Angeles
2 MEN NABBED FOR DRUGS
ANTI-NARCOTICS agents arrested two persons who were allegedly caught carrying illegal drugs in barangay barangay Kalawisan, Lapulapu City, on Tuesday afternoon.
Juditho Bagiuo Suan and Vitiliano Berdon Dungog Jr. each yielded three packs of suspected shabu, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7).
PDEA-7 agents went to Kalawisan for a buy-bust operation but the subject of the operation was able to escape.
PDEA-7 said Suan and Dungog were in the area where the supposed operation was made.
Suspecting that they were cohorts of the subject, PDEA-7 agents frisked the two men and allegedly found the suspected drugs in their possession./CORRESPONDENT CHITO O. ARAGON
GUARD ‘SHOOTS’ BOY
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was wounded after the gun of a security guard accidentally went off outside a mall in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City, on Tuesday night.
The boy sustained splinter wounds in the chest.
Police are withholding the name of the security guard pending confirmation that he was involved in the incident.
The security guard has yet to surface after the incident, said police.
Police said the boy was playing in a boxing ring outside the Gaisano-Mactan mall at 8 p.m.
As he drove the boy out of the ring, the guard drew his service pistol, which went off.
Police said the security guard hurriedly went home after the incident even if he was still on duty.
The boy was brought to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City./USJ-R MASSCOM INTER GIOVANNU F. GARCIA