Confiscated at Mactan’s cargo arrival area: Twelve AK 47 rifles with 680 rounds, two HK 53 submachine guns with 40 cartridges, M16-A1 rifles with 160 rounds and five 12-gauge shotguns. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Cuizon)
CEBU CITY -- High-powered guns and ammunition that an official believes would have been used to cause trouble during an international summit in December were intercepted at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) last Friday.
Superintendent Jose C. Cosio, Police Center for Aviation Security (PCAS) 7 chief, said the firearms came from Davao City-based Kadayawan Security and Investigation Agency.
GUIMARAS -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday visited Guimaras Island, which has been devastated by an oil spill from a sunken tanker and ordered a rapid cleanup because of growing health hazards in coastal villages.
MANILA -- A former publicist of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has asked the Court of Appeals (CA) to invalidate the oath taking of new nurses and direct the retake of Test 5 in the anomaly-tainted June 11 and 12 nurses licensure examinations.
BAGUIO CITY -- The Office of the President finally resolved the impasse on who should seat as mayor of Baguio City after it denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Mayor Braulio Yaranon "for lack of merit."
