Sunday, October 07, 2007 (Philippines)

For detainees at the Cebu provincial jail, months of virtual fame prove no match for an actual visit from Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.(Sun.star photo/Amper Campaña) RANDOM checkpoints started Friday night and the Cebu City police began planning to take gang members’ profiles, as a shooting spree snuffed out four lives in less than 36 hours. Barely a day after the three shootings last Thursday night, a computer engineering student from the University of Visayas was gunned down Friday night. Mark Vic Lucero, 19, did not make it alive to the Cebu City Medical Center. [full story]