PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT...
... WHERE THE PASSENGERS OF LAWYER AMELIE “AM-AM” OCAÑADA-ALEGRE WERE SEATED in her BMW when the car was ambushed, with “Am-Am” killed and the two passengers (Briccio Boholst, another lawyer, and Anthony Pino, an accountant) wounded.
Gunfire was obviously concentrated on Alegre who was on the driver’s seat. The bullets that hit Boholst in the leg and Pino in the stomach must have been stray.
The confusion was caused by the first-day report: one paper said Boholst was seated beside Alegre with Pino at the back (more probable by protocol), while a second paper said Boholst and Pino were at the back (improbable, as it would’ve been the lawyer chauffering her work colleagues). That was corrected the following day, when both papers said Boholst was on the back seat while Pino was beside Alegre.
The wounds seem to fit in with the corrected version on the seating of Alegre’s passengers. Pino, nearer to the range of gunfire, was struck in the stomach while Boholst, farther away, was hit in the leg.
... WHY POLICE HAVEN’T CONSIDERED THE ESTRANGED HUSBAND A SUSPECT. Watchers say that in movies and TV crime sitcoms, the husband is always a suspect until proven otherwise. That’s how it works in fiction. In real life, local police are more careful or polite. Husband Ryan Alegre, a businessman, is at most a “person in interest” but police haven’t even called him that.
... THERE WERE MORE CRIMINALS THAN USUAL in the killing of Alegre: more people (six, four of whom rode in tandem), more motor vehicles (four motorcycles), and maybe more guns (number not yet disclosed but at least the two with backriders must have been armed).
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Winston vs. Junjun: the programs
Winston Garcia’s presentation of his program and plans for his first three years, if elected Cebu governor in 2016, was apparently aimed to show a marked contrast with Gov. Junjun Davide’s state-of-the-province report.
Junjun’s promises were expected to focus on such basic needs as equipping district hospitals, building more classrooms and facilities, improving farm-to-market roads and setting up trading centers and studying the feasiblity of a trans-axial highway. Winston’s, in comparison, soared with such big-ticket projects as a parallel runway at the Mactan Airport, an international port in Consolacion and Liloan with a 500-ha. foreshore reclamation for an export processing zone, a Talisay-to-Carcar freeway and mass transport starting with the Talisay-to-Mandaue route.
Basic housekeeping chores as against bold and ambitious look-to-the-future plans. Reality vs. pipe dreams? Winston is selling his program as doable in three years.
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