Golez takes oath
as NPC member
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Deputy Presidential spokesperson Anthony Golez Jr. and actor Cesar Montano were sworn in yesterday as members of the National People’s Coalition at the NPC Clubhouse in Quezon City by NPC president and former Rizal Province Rep. Frisco San Juan.

NPC chairman and former Isabela Gov. Faustino Dy Jr. served as witness.

The event was attended by Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, Councilors Greg Gasataya, Dindo Ramos, Napoleon Cordova, Homer Bais, Al Victor Espino, Alex Paglumotan and Roberto Rojas, and Tangub Barangay Captain Carlos Montaño.

A top level meeting of the United Negros Alliance presumably to discuss plans for the 2010 elections is set Sunday, Gov. Isidro Zayco and Sagay Mayor Alfredo Marañon Jr., UNA president, confirmed yesterday.

Marañon said Zayco called for the meeting to be attended by the two of them and the six congressmen of Negros Occidental.

“Nothing specific has been lined up for discussion, but we will probably talk about plans for 2010,” Marañon said.

Former Silay City, Negros Occidental chief, Senior Supt. Celistino Guara, who is also Regional Headquarters Support Group head, has been designated as the new officer-in-charge of the Bacolod City Police Office effective today.

Guara was assigned, through PNP General Order 581, to replace Supt. Leo Irwin Agpangan, who has been acting city police director for almost six months now after former city director, Senior Supt. Ronilo Quebrar, left to assume a higher post in Camp Crame.

Guara told the DAILY STAR yesterday that, as the new acting police chief of the BCPO, he will do his best to regain its title as best police station in the region after it landed on the seventh spot in the performance evaluation conducted by the PRO-6 for the second quarter of 2009.