MANILA (PNA) – Makati City has finally eradicated about 65 percent of measles among children in an effort to make the local government a healthier place in Metro Manila.
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Caloocan City refuted allegations yesterday that it is one of the country’s dirtiest cities as the local government underscored its comprehensive waste management program to solve the city garbage problem.
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Woman with ‘grass’
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Marikina City has rang the alarm bells for saving a river that could harm its interests and those of nearby towns if left uncared for.
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Besides travel agencies, the city government of Makati has also deferred issuing business permits to firms wanting to put up vulcanizing and motor shops.
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Mandaluyong has been declared a rabies free city.
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A Western Police District (WPD) official asked one of his policemen to surface immediately following insinuations that he had something to do with the killing of a 60-year-old woman in Tondo, Manila the other night.
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Vice President Noli de Castro, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), said yesterday the local real estate industry stands to benefit from the new linkages it reached with the International Real Estate Federation, known by its French acronym FIABCI.
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Pasay City Mayor Wenceslao “Peewee” Trinidad ordered the police to arrest those responsible for the theft of 13 steel drainage covers along Kalayaan Village, Kalayaan Avenue in the city.
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A senior official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) appealed yesterday to taxpayers nationwide to file their 2003 income tax returns now to avoid the hassle and confusion that normally occur during the deadline rush.
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Malacañang yesterday said the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has denounced any form of terrorism even before it agreed to resume its formal peace talks with the government on April 16.
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Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Nene" Q. Pimentel Jr. (PDP-Laban) strongly urged the government yesterday to find ways to protect hapless consumers from the unabated spiraling of retail prices of petroleum products, including cooking gas used by every home, instead of toeing the line of oil companies that these are due to market forces that are beyond government control.
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MANILA (AP) — Policemen who thwarted an alleged 1995 attempt by Islamic extremists to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Manila joined fellow Filipinos in praying Saturday for the gravely ill Pontiff, adding that the failed plot enabled them to discover other major terror plans.
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