PNP warns civilians,
too, vs. firing guns
BY GILBERT BAYORAN

Civilians who fire their guns during the New Year's eve revelry will also be subject to criminal charges.

Chief Supt. Antonio Billones, chief of the PNP Directorate for Operations, yesterday said civilians who fire their guns will be arrested and charged for alarm and scandal.

If they are licensed gun holders, Billones said their licenses will be revoked, aside from the charges to be filed against them.

In anticipation of the New Year's eve celebration, the PNP and the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Negros are now making sure that none of their members fire their guns at the end of the year.

US Marine Corps
bring Christmas joy
BY NANETTE GUADALQUIVER

A group of officers from the U.S. Marine Corps based in Okinawa, Japan, came to Bacolod City at noon yesterday to distribute toys and other gifts to children from 13 local organizations, schools and church groups.

On board a C-130 plane, the group, headed by Col. Mark Kauzlarich, came to the Philippines for the first time to bring the Toys for Tots Program to Negrense children.

They landed at the Bacolod airport where big boxes of new toys, clothes and books were brought down from the plane to the delight of more than a hundred children awaiting their arrival.