Newsbriefs

CYBERSEX UPSETS RADAZA

LAPU-LAPU City Mayor  Paz Radaza urged Senior Supt. Anthony Obenza, city police chief, to crack down on cyberpornography in the city.

Radaza, in a press conference, said she  told Obenza to submit this  week a report on what action they have taken against cyberporn.

The mayor said she knew about the presence of cybersex dens in the city only when reports quoting Obenza appeared in local dailies.

She said she met with Obenza in City Hall last Friday and asked for updates.

“When I read the news, I immediately called up Obenza. What I would have needed is action. He should have conducted a raid,” Radaza said.

“I was caught unaware by what he reported. It’s not good for the story to be running while he doesn’t deliver results. He did not even communicate to me about cybersex.”

Radaza said Obenza was in City Hall to talk with her about traffic and other matters just before he released to the media information on cybersex dens in the city./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA

PROVINCE TO AWARD PALMA

CEBU Archbishop Jose Palma will be among the recipients of tomorrow’s  “Garbo sa Sugbo” awards in celebration of the province’s 442nd Charter Day.

The Cebu Provincial Board passed a resolution in  yesterday’s special session to give the prelate a special award of distinction for his contribution to Cebu and Cebuanos as head of the Archdiocese of Cebu.

The resolution sponsored by Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale cited Palma’s  election last month as new president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

It also mentioned  Palma’s “preferential care for the poor and the underprivileged by actively attending to their concerns on relocation sites and decent shelters for their families.”

The resolution lauded Palma’s “pastoral leadership, exemplary works and selfless dedication to the spiritual, moral and social life of the Cebuano community.”

Five other individuals, a local government unit and music and sports groups will also be given awards for “consistent manifestation of their life’s work that is worthy of recognition,” Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said.

The awards will be handed out during the Governor’s Ball./correspondent CARMEL LOISE MATUS