Officials of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) disclosed Thursday that the construction of more power projects will stabilize the electricity-starved country’s second largest island of Mindanao.

The provincial government of Iloilo has appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec-6) to grant its exemption request to give financial aid during the election ban. 

Elements of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 confiscated a total of 10 second-hand Honda Fit cars, believed to be smuggled into the country, from a car store in this city.

About 377 barangays covering 17 cities and municipalities in Central Visayas are up for a detailed geohazard assessment and mapping in a zoom-in scale of 1:10,000 this year to be undertaken by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB).

The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has ordered the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to return to sugar planters in Negros Occidental some P10.8 million in advance value-added tax (VAT) on its sales of refined sugar from 2007 to 2008.

apan has funded the construction of a P3-million plant for lemongrass oil distillation in Cauayan, Negros Occidental, which will serve as an alternative livelihood source of farmers in the area.

The Board of Investments (BOI) is encouraging more industry players under the creative sector to capitalize on additional incentives provided for them by the government.

A farmers cooperative has received post-harvest facilities from the provincial government headed by Quezon Governor David C. Suarez. 

Today is a day to remember for the Abrenios as they celebrate the fifth staging of the Kawayan Festival.

More or less 4,000 Bulakeños witnessed the birth of a program seeking to turn Bulacan into a hub of industrialization and model of inclusive economic growth as Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado and Rep. Joselito Mendoza launched early morning yesterday the One Bulacan Program for Rapid Industrialization and Development (PRIDE) held at the Bulacan Capitol Gymnasium here.

In effort to provide permanent shelters to the landslide victims in this town, the provincial government headed by Governor Lilia G. Pineda assured yesterday the completion of the construction of 170 houses of the affected families. 

The provincial government has retained its International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification with the positive findings of officers in another round of audit in its offices.

Second District Rep. Abet S. Garcia revealed yesterday that the security and economic development of the province and the rest of the country will be further boosted after President Benigno S. Aquino III signed a landmark legislation modernizing the Government Arsenal based here as part of the P75-billion program to upgrade the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). 

 The Aquino administration’s flagship project in Iloilo spearheaded by Senator Franklin M. Drilon will definitely push the province as the top rice producing area, and possibly become a rice granary of the Philippines. 

The Borongan City Women Council joins the nation in observance of Women’s Month Celebration this March. 

 At least three countries are now replicating the Bohol Rabies Prevention and Eradication Program (BRPEP), and using it in addressing rising rabies cases in their respective homelands.

The Aboitiz-led Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) is expected to pilot-test within the first half of this year a system of prepaid electricity consumption.

Fourteen construction workers have been confirmed dead in the Leyte landslide that occurred last March 1, after the body of the last missing victim was found early yesterday, a military report said.

Media groups are seeking justice for the shooting of  Domingo M. Valdecantos Jr., a Cavite-based correspondent, near his home in DSM Subdivision, Mambog I, Bacoor City, on Wednesday morning.

Residents of this energy-producing town bewailed yesterday massive brownouts that stem from the debt of Pantabangan Municipal Electric Services (PAMES) First Gen Hydro Power Corporation (FGHPC).