| President Arroyo, just after a meeting with residents of Tondo, Manila. Authorities scrambled to shift their focus to the northern provinces of Isabela, Aurora, and Cagayan as typhoon Lando returned after killing at least 10 people in other parts of the country.(Presidential close-in photographers office) |
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IN the battle of libel suits between Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia and businessman Crisologo Saavedra no one won, at least at the prosecutors’ level.
After dismissing the libel complaint filed by Garcia against Saavedra, the Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor also rejected the libel suit the businessman lodged against the governor.
But unlike the first case where the investigating and reviewing prosecutors agreed that there is no probable cause to charge Saavedra for libel, the prosecutors in the second case have different views.
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