PRIME SEVEN

1-2 ROXAS AT DILG, ABAYA AT DOTC Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and Joseph Emilio “Jun” Abaya who are the new secretaries of interior and local government and transportation & communications, respectively. Both are LP bigwigs (president and secretary general). Mar Roxas is grandson of Manuel Roxas, fifth president overall and and first president of the Third Republic. Jun Abaya is great grandson of Emilio Aguinaldo, first Philippine president. 3 PH SPARED FROM QUAKE It would’ve been equivalent to “32 Hiroshima bombs” had 7.6 earthquake’s epicenter been on land and “vertical displacement of ocean water” been bigger. A blessing, on top of scientific explanations, says the Phivolcs chief. Still, it caused a P1.4 million damage per initial estimate. 4 10 INJURED IN LPG BLAST Junkshop worker in Bry. Calamba, Cebu City was removing the regulator of one of three tanks when it exploded. Six houses of light materials were damaged.

5-6 KIDS VICTIMS IN CRIME RASH A man in Talisay City killed a toddler, 2, by bumping the boy’s head on the concrete road. Police rescued a girl, 8, from a hostage taker, suspected to be on drugs, in Apas, Cebu City. 7 ‘GIVE SERENO A CHANCE’ PNoy’s appeal following disclosures about Supreme Court Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno’s rating in the psychological and psychiatric tests and her record of voting for the president’s interests.