BACOOR CITY, Cavite — Mayor Strike B. Revilla has issued 11 executive orders creating local boards and reorganizing councils in a bid to enhance the administration’s services further for the new city and the citizens. The historical and fast-developing Bacoor was proclaimed a city after a referendum last June 23. Revilla issued executive orders reorganizing the Peace and Order Council, Health Board, School Board, Development Council, Solid Waste Management Board, Urban Poor Planning and Housing Council and the Bids and Awards Committee and declaring every second Saturday of the month as Zapote River Clean-Up Day.  (Freddie G. Lazaro)

MORE WORKERS

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga — Clark Development Corporation announced yesterday that workers inside this Freeport zone has reached 66,223 as of June 30 this year, an all-time high employment record since the inception of the state-owned firm in 1993. In the report of Customer Service Department to CDC Chair and Officer-in-Charge Eduardo SL Oban Jr. the number of workers came from the 553 reporting locators inside the Freeport Zone. As of June 30, there are 562 locators who have signed contracts with the state-owned firm. CSD said that the previous record high is 64,488 last May 31, but after a month an additional 1,735 workers were recorded. (Franco G. Regala)

ABOITIZ DONATES BOOKS, LAB TOOLS

TAYABAS, CITY, Quezon — Freshmen and sophomore students of Quezon Science High Scholl (QSHS) in Barangay Isabang, here, expressed yesterday thanks for the books and laboratory equipment donated to them by a private organization. Quezon Schools Superintendent Tolentino Aquino and Provincial Chief of Staff Webster Letargo, representing Quezon Governor David C. Suarez, welcomed the donation by Aboitiz Foundation, led by its Chief Operating Officer (COO) Benjamin Cariaso in simple ceremonies last Monday to boost learning in the fields of Mathematics, English, Science and Technology. (Danny Estacio)

COUNTERFEIT BILLS

ORION, Bataan — Police busted a counterfeiting syndicate with the arrest of four suspects inside the public market here, the chief of the Orion Police Station reported yesterday. Chief Inspector Elmer Santiago, chief of police, said the suspects belonged to a big-time syndicate printing fake money in Metro Manila and nearby Olongapo City. Fake R500 bills were used for purchases at the Orion Public Market, prompting Santiago to dispatch a team to arrest the sources of the counterfeit bills later identified as Lorena Palamor, Nas Diwa, Zukra Abad, and Naraisa Dealangin. (Mar T. Supnad)

P.C.S.O. BRINGS HOPE TO ZAMBALES

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has brought hope to the residents of Zambales, as it opened a new branch in Barangay Pagasa, Olongapo City on Friday. It is a part of the agency’s stepping up its effort to widen its reach to the provinces to lessen the burden of indigent patients seeking assistance from the charity agency. PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II and other agency officials led the opening of the mini-PCSO. (Edd K. Usman)