IN BRIEF

Marcos OKs promotion of new PNP generals

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday approved the promotion of eight Philippine National Police (PNP) officials.

PNP Chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda Jr. spearheaded the rites at the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Acorda bestowed the new ranks for Major Generals Harold Tuzon, Victor Wanchakan, and Rudolph Dimas and Brigadier Generals Lex Ephraim Gurat, Victor Arevalo, Alfredo Dangani, Roderick Mariano, and Redrico Maranan.

Maranan is currently serving as PNP chief information officer. Tuzon hails from Area Police Command in Eastern Mindanao and Western Mindanao, while Wanchakan is from Area Police Command in Western Mindanao. Dimas is in the Special Action Force.

Meanwhile, Arevalo is in charge Center for Police Strategy Management, the group that directs the PNP to good performance management down to its last units.

Gurat is the chief directional staff of National Capital Region Police Office, on the other hand, Mariano comes from the Police Regional Office CARAGA.

Charles Dantes

Another solon urges bank merger probe

CAGAYAN de Oro Rep. Rufus

Rodriguez on Tuesday urged the House of Representatives to investigate the proposed merger of state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (Land Bank) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).

“Let us look into the legal basis of this proposal. It is my opinion that the merger cannot take place without Congress passing an enabling bill,” Rodriguez said He said the two banks were created by two separate laws, which have to be amended or repealed by another law that would provide for the fusion of the two banks, together with the mandate, objectives, organization, and relevant details governing the operation of the emerging entity.

Maricel V. Cruz

Immigration agents arrest five illegal aliens

BUREAU of Immigration (BI) agents arrested five illegal aliens who are now facing deportation for violating the country’s immigration laws.

Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the foreigners –an American, 2 Indians, a Pakistani, and a Vietnamese were arrested in separate operations conducted by agents of the BI intelligence division.

He urged the public to support the BI’s campaign by reporting the presence of any illegal alien in their neighborhood and communities so they could be arrested, expelled, and barred from re-entering the country.

BI intelligence chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. said that BI agents arrested in Baguio City an American national identified as Victor Florendo Carpiso, 63, who was found to have overstayed in the country.

Vito Barcelo