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Drive vs smuggling intensified
The government’s drive against smuggling got a much needed shot in the arm yesterday as President Arroyo personally went to the Bureau of Customs (BoC) in Manila to inspect a shipment of smuggled goods that was seized by the agency’s operatives.
Strange but true...
In a strange twist of fate, former First Lady Imelda R. Marcos has been named by state prosecutors as one of their witnesses against businessman Herminio T. Disini, an alleged crony of her husband, former President Ferdinand Marcos.
Erap lawyers demand bank’s records to prove witness payoffs
Lawyers for former President Joseph Estrada yesterday asked the Sandiganbayan Special Division to compel Equitable PCI Bank to bring to court its corporate records that would help them prove their theory that the bank used private corporate funds to pay its executives and employees to testify against the deposed leader.
New core shelters for Leyte landslide victims to be built
New housing units for families who survived the Leyte landslide last month will be built starting May by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Gawad Kalinga.
Crackdown on ‘pseudo beauty doctors’ urged
A congressional body has identified "beauty doctors’’ regularly appearing on television as the targets of a legislative clampdown against medical practitioners passing themselves off as experts in specializations other than their own field of expertise.
Fireman killed, 3 hurt in 5-vehicle collision
A firefighter was killed while three other people were injured in a five-vehicle collision that took place in Makati City at dawn yesterday.
Mandaluyong wants to be ‘rabies-free’
The local government of Mandaluyong continues to exhaust all efforts to eradicate rabies in the city in order to officially obtain the title as the "rabies-free'' city in Metro Manila.
Makati City provides safe drinking water for students
The government of Makati City has installed at least 41 water purifiers in different public elementary and high schools this month, a move that will provide students with free and safe drinking water.
Another shabu mart found in Pasig
Agents of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force (AID-SOTF) arrested 14 suspected drug pushers yesterday during a raid on another suspected “shabu market” in Pasig City, this time in Barangay Pineda.
Sweet love turns sour, leads to 3 deaths
A sweet love turned sour ended in the bloody death of a woman and two men inside a beauty parlor in Batasan Hills, Quezon City at noon yesterday.
LTO reports higher revenues from traffic fines
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has reported a hefty increase in revenues as it collected P8.63 million from the fines paid by traffic violators for January alone this year, a development it attributed to the loss of police power of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
METRO-GO-ROUND
Bomb hoax
Manila school offers free education to dependents of military personnel
Manila Mayor Lito Atienza announced that starting this June, qualified dependents of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) military personnel who are graduates of Manila Public High School or whose parents are registered voters and residents of the City of Manila can take advantage of the city’s “free tuition” program in the City College of Manila.
ILO grants QC P1.7 M for its anti-child labor program
The Quezon City government’s continuing effort to address the problem of child labor got its needed boost when the 26-member city council approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to enter into a contract, with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and accept the amount of US,052 for the implementation of the organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor.
Muntinlupa City honors its 10 most outstanding students
Muntinlupa City awarded recently its 10 most outstanding students during a program held at the Insular Life building in Filinvest, Alabang.
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