POLICE officers being detailed as bodyguards for politicians, business owners and other individuals will be recalled by the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7.

ARRANGING for direct flights from Guangxi to Cebu and Nanning to Manila was one of the suggestions Gov. Ma Biao of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region raised last night to Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.

LAHUG Barangay Captain Mary Ann de los Santos yesterday confirmed meeting with presidential aspirant Manny Villar, but said she’d rather keep Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña guessing what the discussion was about.

FORMER Mandaue City mayor Thadeo Z. Ouano “may still run” for public office, as the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas’ decision last year is not yet final, said his legal counsel Gloria Lastimosa-Dalawampu.

ALTHOUGH he admitted that he came to Cebu to meet local political leaders, Sen.

IN ANSWER to the charge that the Cebu City Government was not consulted on his proposed Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, Rep. Eduardo R.

THE Cebu City Attorney’s Office is preparing the appropriate pleadings to ask the court to compel the Provincial Government to open the financial records of the Cebu South Bus Terminal (CSBT).

AN INTENSITY 4 earthquake shook the northern Cebu town of Tuburan early yesterday morning, with slight tremors being felt in Cebu City and Negros Oriental Province.

PROVINCIAL Board (PB) Member Victor Maambong will push for the re-opening of the Balili investigation on Monday.

A COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) official has ordered all election supervisors to coordinate with law enforcement agencies during site surveys.

WARRANTS of arrest were served on former Mandaue City mayor Thadeo Ouano and 13 others impleaded in one of five cases involving the lamppost scam yesterday, though no arrests were made.

AFTER being a guest in a popular late-night TV show, Manny Pacquiao hit another media milestone by being picked for the cover of Time Magazine.

COMPOSTELA Mayor Ritchie Wagas wrote a letter to his constituents, alluding that politics is behind the arrest of his brother Gilbert, a former mayor of the town.

FORMER Compostela town mayor Gilbert Wagas was committed to the National Penitentiary at 4 p.m. yesterday to start serving his 20- to 40-year prison term for malversation of public funds.

ALL four Flores gang members who died in a shootout with a joint Cebu and Manila team of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents last week tested positive for gunpowder nitrates in a paraffin te