PRIME SEVEN

1-3 WIDE HUNT FOR BRAINS.

The area of the hunt for Malaysian national Muhammad Saaid Suffian, a.k.a. Manuel Amalilio, and his co-conspirators at the Aman Futures Group Philippines, Inc. has been widened to include neighboring Sabah and Malaysia. Under a mutual legal aid treaty, President Aquino hopes “our neighbors can help” find and arrest the culprit. The investigation might include negligent or conniving government regulators and law enforcers who failed to stop the scam on time. Initial estimate of loss of P12 billion from 15,000 victims might still go up. Ten Cebu-based traders were among those who lost savings and fortune to the swindlers.

4 VOTE ON RH BILL

may finally happen as proponents get the open support from the biggest business organizations and opposers rush to secure enough votes to block it. Support for the bill mounted following a number of amendments aimed to appease the dissent.

5 PILOT ERROR, DEFECTIVE PLANE

were officially identified by civil aviation investigators as causes of the Aug. 18 crash of the Aviatour Piper Seneca off Masbate waters, which killed then DILG chief Jesse Robredo and two pilots. Aviatour owners and familiy of pilot Capt. Jessup Bahinting were shocked.

6 THANKSGIVING MASS

preparations stepped up at South Road Properties as the pilgrim image of San Pedro Calungsod, the country’s second saint, is due to arrive in Cebu Tuesday for the mass on Friday, to which some 300,000 to half a million devotees are expected.

7 LIVE-IN COUPLE

shot dead in Minglanilla, Cebu. The former lover of Llelosa Flores, 42, one Joel Bagao, was suspected as the second man in the “love triangle.” Killed with Flores, a vegetable vendor, was her partner Alexander Samson.