CentCom has new chief
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Maj. Gen. Daniel Casabar has been named commanding general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Central Command in the Visayas.

Casabar will replace Lt. Gen. Pedro Ike Inserto as the CentCom chief, in turnover of command rites, today, to be presided over by AFP chief of staff Alexander Yano at Camp Lapu-Lapu in Cebu City.

Casabar was formerly commanding general of the Special Operations Command that supervises the Army’s elite Special Forces and Scout Ranger Regiments of the Army, as well as the counter-terrorist unit Light Reaction Battalion, and, later, as AFP deputy chief of staff for Logistics, military records show.

Villar satisfaction rating up

Nacionalista Party president Manny Villar expanded his public satisfaction rating with a record-breaking 74 percent of those polled by the Social Weather Stations in the last two moths of 2008, a press release from his office said.

Villar’s over-all satisfaction rating in September 2008 was at 61 percent. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile took over the Senate presidency in November 2008 and was already Senate head when the SWS quarterly survey was conducted from November 28 to December 1, 2008.

Villar’s rating was also higher than the 61 percent of Vice President Noli de Castro, 22 percent of Speaker Prospero Nograles and 30 percent of Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno in the same SWS survey of the top officials of the land, the press release said.

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