By Diann Calucin
Caloocan City Mayor Dale "Along" Malapitan assured the preparedness of the city government for the onslaught of severe tropical storm “Paeng”.
"Handa po ang iba't ibang tanggapan ng pamahalaang lungsod sa anumang posibilidad ng sakunang hatid ng bagyong Paeng (Our city offices a
BAGGAO, Cagayan - - Mayor Leonardo C. Pattung has ordered a pre-emptive evacuation of Barangay Taytay residents amid looming danger in landslide-prone areas here.
Photo courtesy of Vladimir Laureta
The preemptive evacuation was conducted by the Municipal Disaster and Risk Reduction Management
A total of 630 individuals finished their two-week stint and received their certificates of completion during the culminating activities for the Department of Labor and Employment’s Tulong Panghanapbuhay Para sa Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers or TUPAD Program in Parañaque City.
The emergency empl
MANILA - The Sandiganbayan cleared a Batangas town mayor of graft arising from the purchase of the municipality of a property owned by the local chief executive's children. In a September 23 decision, the anti-graft court's Fourth Division acquitted Malvar Mayor Cristeta Reyes and her two co-accused, citing the "failure of the prosecution to prove their guilt beyond reasonable doubt." Municipal treasurer Yolanda Cabiscuelas and budget officer Jeanette Fruelda were also cleared of the charges. The court said even if Reyes and the landowners are related, it "does not automatically translate to having financial or pecuniary interest" in the execution of the sale. The prosecution claimed Reyes' children gained unwarranted benefit and advantage in the purchase of their 5,000-square-meter lot for PHP6.6 million, to be used as a site for a high school. The construction of the Santiago High School was completed in September 2009. The court noted the Reyes childr
SADANGA, Mountain Province – Twenty-three persons living in five households in Sitio Tatabra-an, Barangay Sacasacan here have been evacuated as the area continues to sink following the magnitude-7 earthquake last July 27.
SITIO Tatabra-an in Barangay Sacasacan in Sadanga, Mountain Province is si