GROUP WANTS LANDFILL PROJECT DUMPED
AN environmental group called for the revocation of the environmental complaince certificate issued to the proposed 44-hectare landfill in Obando, Bulacan. Carrying a fishing boat, fishing net and placards, bearing calls to revoke the ECC of the proposed landfill to be sited in a fishing village in Obando, Bulacan, more than 200 individuals from that town and members of the EcoWaste Coalition marched to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Quezon City asking Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje to dump the landfill project. They argued that under Republic Act 9003, the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the landfill violates the minimum considerations for Siting and Designing Sanitary Landfills, which requires that “the site must be chosen with regard for the sensitivities of the community’s residents,” and that “the landfill’s operation will not detrimentally affect environmentally sensitive resources”. FRANCIS EARL A. CUETO

10-WHEEL TRUCK SQUASHES 3
A 10-wheel truck crushed three people on a motorcycle in Sulop, Davao del Sur early Tuesday morning, police said yesterday. A report filed by Police Officer 1 Gil Cababat to Camp Crame said the motorcycle – driven by Marc Leo Tecson, 22, with Jomar Nacion, 22, and Diomedez Alfeche, 39, was entering the national highway from barangay Talas when it was rammed by the Davao City-bound cargo truck driven by one Rogelio Flores. Cababat said the victims were run over by the cargo truck after it struck motorcycle. They died on the spot from multiple fracture and other injuries, he said. Flores fled but later surrendered to Davao City traffic officials. RAFFY AYENG

HEIGHTENED ALERT FOR ALL SAINTS DAY
The Cavite Provincial Police Office declared heightened alert status from October 26 until November 1. Cavite Provincial Director John C. Bulalacao ordered his 23 chiefs of police to augment patrol police mobiles in different cemeteries in Cavite. Cavite has 96 cemeteries with Silang having 11, Bacoor, 10 and thickly populated Dasmariñas with 7. He also said that there will be no holiday break for all members of police. To prevent the criminals like Akyat Bahay gangs to strike, Bulalacao said he will deploy policemen to help security guards secure houses in the subdivisions. ROGELIO LIMPIN

ROAD MISHAP KILLS JUDGE
A JUDGE succumbed to death when the vehicle he was riding figured in a road accident in Zamboanga del Sur Monday, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Judge Ernesto Maximo Victor Laurel of the regional trial court Branch 30 in Aurora, died on the spot when his white Volkswagen (GGV-417) collided with a blue Mitsubishi Montero (KFM-655) along the National Highway in barangay Kahayagan East in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, said Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Jr., Philippine National Police spokesman. Aurora police have taken into custody Victor Francis Benhur Escueta, who drove the Montero. RAFFY AYENG