ANGELES CITY – An activist group urged yesterday Pres. Aquino to be trans-parent in his dealings with the US officials amid recent US military statements and movements giving rise to suspicions that the Ameri-cans are maneuvering for another military bases agreement. The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) expressed fears that the President’s […]
ADMINISTRATION ally Senator Franklin Drilon said the petition to stop the implementation of the guilty verdict on former Chief Justice Renato Corona will not hold water. On Tuesday, lawyers Alan Paguia and Homobono Adaza and taxpayer Hernan Laurel asked the Supreme Court to issue a preliminary injunction and hold oral arguments regarding the alleged “infirm” […]
THE Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) is in favor of a proposed law in the House of Representatives that would expand the exceptions on the disclosure of dollar deposits. A week after former Chief Justice Renato Corona was convicted by the impeachment tribunal, the House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries discussed on Tuesday House bills […]
MALACANANG defended Tuesday the Department of Education’s (DepEd) implementation of K+12 education program, saying it would help improve the country’s education system. “If not now? When,” presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said on those who are opposing the full implementation of the program this school year, citing government’s unpreparedness. The Palace official sees the resistance coming […]
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 they are making the final preparations for the first day of school at the Angeles […]
SAN LUIS — The Provincial Government recently promised to allocate P3 million to cover half of the actual selling price of a lot occupied by the newly established San Luis High School, formerly known as A. Gonzales Sioco High School here. Governor Lilia Pineda said Tuesday that the Capitol is determined to invest for the […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Governor Lilia Pineda on Monday sought the help of the newly organized Junkshop Owners and Operators of Pampanga in solving Pampanga’s garbage problem. Speaking before an estimated 400 junkshop owners and operators enrolled under Capitol’s “Kariton para sa Kalinisan, Kabuhayan, Kalusugan at Katahimikan” or 5K Program at the People’s Sports […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — The Department of Health (DOH) in Central Luzon urged the public Tuesday to be vigilant against dengue, especially now that the rainy season has started. “Dengue prevention and control is everybody’s responsibility. We each have our role to play in order to ward off this disease from our communities,” DOH […]
MANILA – THE Bureau of Customs recently seized over 100,000 pieces of illegally imported Digital Video Disc (DVD) movies, cell phone and laptop accessories and sacks and drums of unidentified chemicals worth P10 million. Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said one forty-footer container van arrived at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) from Guangzhou, China aboard […]
MANILA (Updated 2:48 p.m.) — Party-list lawmakers slammed the Department of Education (DepEd) for implementing the K+12 program without an enabling law from Congress. “The DepEd has essentially tied the hands of Congress that K+12 must definitely be passed because it had already started its implementation. How can this not be a constitutional infringement of […]