CLARK FREEPORT- The advocacy group Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement has hailed Cathay Pacific Airways’ subsidiary Dragonair for launching flights at the Clark International Airport here. This, even as PGKM, expressed apprehension over what it called “over concentration of Clark flights to a single destination: Hong Kong.” Dragonair joins Cebu Pacific, Seair-Tiger Airways and Airphil Express […]
• CANDABA — A retired police official manifested recently his desire to participate in the race of mayor here in the coming 2013 elections. Retired police superintendent Rommel Salac, a former chief of police of San Miguel Bulacan, is the fourth person to manifest his interest to join the political race in this town. Earlier, […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Senator Loren Legarda has announced the passage of the People’s Survival Fund (PSF) in Congress. Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change and sponsor of the bill, said she is optimistic that the President will sign the measure into law soon. “I am pleased that both houses of […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Public schools in Sindalan village are now “discipline zones,” Sindalan village chief Arnel Sicat said. Sicat said as soon as classes opened last Monday the Sindalan Elementary School, Sindalan High School, Information and Communication Technology High School and day care centers have been declared discipline zones by the village council. […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Some 500 kindergarten and day care students of Northville 14 in Barangay Calulut received school supplies and slippers from the Rotary Club of Metro San Fernando and the City of San Fernando Bankers Association. “We are very happy to be back here at Northville to lend a hand and reach […]
ANGELES CITY – A militant party list group and a fishers’ federation urged yesterday the Aquino government admit the failure of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (CARPer), as they reported a total backlog of 1,093,000 hectares still up for distribution to farmers. “So far, CARPer has accomplished only 54.6 percent of its […]
ANGELES CITY – A total of 400 student-Angeleños will troop to the temporary campus site of the City College of Angeles (CCA) on June 18 for the first semester of academic year 2012-2013. Averell Laquindanum, president of the CCA, said that they are making the final preparations for the first day of school at the […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – After the ouster of Chief Justice Renato Corona, the League of Cities in the Philippines (LCP) is set to file another motion for reconsideration against the approval of 16 new cities in the country. The Supreme Court, under Corona’s administration, approved the 16 new “unqualified” cityhood. “We’re considering to file […]
LUBAO, Pampanga – Gov. Lilia Pineda has pushed for the improvement of the Sampaguita livelihood industry here, saying it’s “a lifetime business assuring a family’s bright future.” Pineda led on Monday the second distribution of the total 4,000 Sampaguita seedlings in barangay San Roque Dau 2nd here. She and her daughter, Lubao Mayor Mylyn Pineda-Cayabyab, […]
ORANI, Bataan – American Idol runner-up Jessica Sanchez is not yet sure when will she visit the Philippines. “She has to finish her commitment with the famous television show until September this year,” her grandfather Eddie Bugay said Monday. The retired American sailor just arrived last Friday from the United States and again began tending […]