DAILY STAR: Negros Oriental

The police recovered a cache of loose firearms and ammunition during a search on the residence of a carpenter in Sitio Biyaas, Barangay Minoba, Bayawan City in Negros Oriental.

Armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Ananson Jayme of the Regional Trial Court Branch 63, in Bayawan City, dated May 17, police swooped down on the house of Cristituto Muñoz, alias “Virgilio Cristobal” and “Virgel”, 47, married, Insp. Teddy Picardal, Bayawan police chief, said.

The firearms recovered include two shotguns, one .45 caliber handgun, and a .38 snub-nosed caliber revolver, 20 rounds of live ammunition for a shotgun, 43 rounds for a .45 caliber, 14 rounds for a .38 gun, 23 rounds for an M-16 caliber rifle, 10 rounds of carbine ammunition, eight for an M-14 rifle, 13 rounds for a .30 caliber, 20 rounds for a 12-gauge shotgun, one .45 caliber magazine, and two improvised holsters, Picardal said.

Police chief to be sacked for not
stopping illegal numbers game
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The chief of police of a city in the Second District of Negros Oriental will be relieved from his post for failure to stop the illegal numbers game “swertres” in his area of responsibility.

Senior Supt. Edward Carranza, director of the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office, announced this during the turnover of two bomb-sniffing dogs from the provincial government to the PNP.

Carranza, however, refused to disclose the identity of the COP until the issuance of an order from the PNP regional police director.

3 student ambassadors
to Japan announced

Three Sillimanians were chosen as student ambassadors under the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths Programme 2012, a press release from the school said.

Iphraim Cabristante, an incoming Mass Communication junior; John Paul Oira, a Computer Engineering senior; and Management senior student Jamie Mananquil spent two weeks in Japan, with 90 other student-leaders from various countries, and underwent a series of activities aimed at mutual understanding and enhanced cultural appreciation, the press release also said.

JENESYS is a program of the Japan International Cooperation Center geared toward establishing a basis of Asia’s stalwart solidarity by expanding youth exchange.

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