Alarcio confirms verbal
order for Buenafe's relief
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

Central Visayas regional PNP director Chief Supt. Silverio Alarcio has confirmed that he has been issued a verbal instruction from national headquarters at Camp Crame in Quezon City to relieve Oriental Negros provincial police director Sr. Supt. Melvin Ramon Buenafe.

Alarcio, however, declined to name the ranking PNP official who gave the instructions.

He also confirmed that Buenafe had been told to go on leave, a move that many police officials view as a subtle cover-up for Buenafe's exit from the province.

DOJ drops sex charges
of pastor vs. ex-teacher
BY ALEX PAL

The Department of Justice has dismissed the sexual harassment charges filed by a Mindanao-based pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines against his female former teacher at Silliman University Divinity School, an ordained UCCP minister.

In a four-page resolution dated August 14, Acting Regional State Prosecutor Llena Ipong said that the sexual harassment charge filed by the pastor was only a means of gaining leverage over his former teacher, who had earlier filed a rape case against him.

The rape case against the male pastor was recommended for filing by the Dumaguete City Prosecutor's Office before the Regional Trial Court but is now with the Department of Justice for review. The identities of the pastor and the minister are being withheld.

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