Tuesday, April 04, 2006 (Philippines)

Cebu City’s most popular and distinctive landmark, Magellan’s Cross, undergoes repair and restoration. Clean-up and beautification go with citywide preparations for the Asean summit in December. Cebu City, Mandaue City, and Lapu-Lapu City will be hosts to the meeting of Asean leaders. (Sunstar photo/Arni Aclao) In another twist in the tug-of-war at the Port of Cebu, District Collector Ma. Lourdes V. Mangaoang announced yesterday that the Bureau of Customs officer-in-charge Alexander Arevalo has told her not to vacate her post. Mangaoang said Arevalo did not give her a reason for her retention but was told that the order suspending customs personnel order (CPO) 169-2006 came from the “higher authority.” 169-2006, which reassigned Collector Grace Zuño Karingal to Cebu to replace Mangaoang, was issued by Customs Acting Commissioner Napoleon Morales last Friday before he went to Beijing, China to attend a convention. [full story]