CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga, Philippines — A total of 396 policemen in Central Luzon are undergoing a 45-day refresher course on criminal investigation, police here said. The participants come from different provincial and city police offices within the region including Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Aurora, Zambales, Angeles City and Olongapo City.

Chief Superintendent Jesus Gordon Descanzo Jr., executive officer of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations – Northern Luzon, was guest of honor and speaker at the opening of the refresher course. Chief Superintendent Edgardo Ladao, regional director of the Central Luzon police, said the course is a continuing program to ensure that every policeman has the basic knowledge in the field of investigation. (MARK ANTHONY N. MANUEL)

Suspects arrested

CAMP GEN. PACIANO RIZAL, Laguna — Police have in custody two suspects in the gruesome murder of a 19-year-old University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) student Monday night. Senior Superintendent Gilberto Cruz, Laguna Police Provincial Office (PPO) chief, Friday identified the suspects as Percival de Guzman, a 38-year-old tricycle driver of Barangay Batong Malaki, Los Baños; and Lester Ivan Lopez-Rivera, a bank security guard and resident of Barangay Dila, Bay, Laguna.

De Guzman was arrested in his residence on Thursday. Rivera surrendered in the municipal police station of Floridablanca, Pampanga Friday morning. The student, Given Grace Cebanico, who was abducted in Umali Subdivision, was found dead Tuesday. She had been shot and believed to have been raped. (FERDINAND F. CASTRO)

Feeding program

ANTIPOLO CITY — Children in daycare centers in this city are this year’s beneficiaries of the national government’s feeding program.

Nadeia Sarte, City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) office chief, said the city government has received P10 million from the Department of Social Welfare and Development – Region 4-A particularly for the Supplemental Feeding Program (SFP) for the children who are enrolled in the 191 daycare centers.

The kids have all been de-wormed and weighed prior to the start of the program which will tentatively start on Monday. (NEL B. ANDRADE)

Car restoration

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga-- An Australian company will invest P 50 million to restore vintage vehicles at the Freeport. Clark Development Corporation President Felipe Antonio Remollo said the Byrnes Motor Trust Restoration has signed a new sub-lease agreement with Kita Corporation, one of the pioneering firms in Clark.

The restoration of vintage cars have become popular not only in Australia but in other countries as well. The firm will import old cars from Australia , North America, Asia and Europe and re-export them. Byrnes Motors will employ 85 workers for the restoration project. (FRANCO G. REGALA)

Health symposium

LINGAYEN — The PQ Healthshield, Inc. partnered with the Provincial Health Office (PHO) in conducting a health symposium to protect women from cervical cancer. The symposium, "A Peril to the Pinay at Her Prime," was held at the Pangasinan Development and Training Center recently.

In the Philippines, cervical cancer is said to be the second leading killer cancer among women. A resource speaker, Dr. Paul Adrian Pinlac, said that worldwide, a woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. (Liezle Basa Inigo)