7 THINGS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT...

1 EUCHARIST CONGRESS AFTER SINULOG. A week of religious activity, the International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church, after one week of fiesta cum cultural celebration of Senyor Sto. Ni¤o. School holidays and the heavier-andjammed-than usual traffic. Few are complaining though. Great honor for Cebu.

2 ONE- MAN-AND-FAMILY SUFFERING, RELIGIOUS GROUP’S WOES. Lowel Menorca II alleges he is being harassed by the powerful Iglesia ni Cristo, amid its internal woes that have spilled out to public view.

3 HOW WOULD JPE PROVE PNOY OVERSAW MAMASAPANO MISSION? If Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile could do that at the Senate hearing on Jan. 27, he might accomplish what the committee on public safety led by Sen. Grace Poe had previously failed: to pin down PNoy’s role.

4 DID SC OVERLOOK CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON FOREIGN TROOPS, EQUIPMENT FOR PUBLIC SAFETY? Associate Justice Antonio Carpio’s personal interest in defense against China may have shown motive of Supreme Court in upholding defense agreement with Americans.

5 WHAT HAND DID HIGH COURT SHOW IN FIRST ORAL ARGUMENTS ON GRACE POE’S CASES? A probable finding of lack of residence against the presidential candidate.

6‘ CHILD SNATCHER’ CHARGED DESPITE PARENTS’ DESISTANCE. Melissa Londres, 26, could land in jail without bail. The parents she admitted she stole the baby from at Vicente Sotto hospital forgave her but the state still filed the charges.

7 TRAGEDY OF 2 BOYS WHO TOUCHED LIVE WIRE AT THE SKYWALK, in separate incidents but both in suspected acts of pilferage of tarpaulin and electrical wire from the site.