By Ian Ocampo Flora Thursday, March 8, 2012 PORAC Police in this town confiscated a brick of marijuana, weighing approximately 1 kilo with street value of P25,000, from a man who sped away from a checkpoint in Barangay Planas here. Superintendent Neil Miro, chief of police, identified the suspect as Joy T. Ampis, 27, of […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 MEXICO — In two separate venues, Mayor Teddy Tumang and Councilor Rex Calma of this town on Wednesday threw brickbats at each other, while answering accusations and barbs in their long-running feud. Calma was first to hit Tumang anew, this time with additional charges and accusations of alleged corruption from purchases […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 SUBIC Bay Freeport — Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Chairman and Administrator Roberto Garcia bared in his first State of the Freeport Address his 5-year plan which will revive the agencies thrust to make Subic generate more employment and investments. Garcia presented several plans of the agency such as making it the […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 OLONGAPO CITY — Mobile court proceedings under the Enhanced Justice on Wheels (E-JOW) led to the resolution of 37 cases and the release of 30 detainees from Olongapo City jails. Out of 11 cases referred for mediation, two were settled, while nine cases were reset or referred back to the appropriate […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Third District Representative Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr. said Thursday he is fully supporting the plan for a separate high school for Barangay Panipuan from the current Panipuan Integrated School. This came as Panipuan Integrated School principal Carina Tarenio bared plans for the launching of a full […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Indigent students at the Bulaon Resettlement here received thousands worth of scholarship assistance from 3rd district Representative Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr. on Thursday. Gonzales distributed P105,655 in scholarship assistance to San Vicente Pilot School here. The scholarship benefited 187 recipients and covers their educational expenses for […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — An official from the Pampanga Police Provincial Office revealed that at least 109 wanted persons in the province were arrested over the past two months. Police Superintendent Edgardo Tinio, police provincial director, said nine of the arrested individuals belong to the list of top 20 most […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 MABALACAT — Pampanga First District Representative Carmelo “Tarzan” Lazatin has filed a bill seeking to establish two separate municipal trial courts (MTCs) in Magalang and Mabalacat. The lawmaker said the move seeks to prevent the backlog in the hearing of cases in the MTC level If passed into law, House Bill […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Governor Lilia Pineda expressed alarm Thursday over the increasing number of robberies involving miners-turned-robbers who dig into pawnshops and banks. Pineda said culprits are also posing as workers of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), municipal engineering office, and telephone or electric companies. The […]
Thursday, March 8, 2012 CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Seven workers, mostly electricians, including two engineers, were injured when a vertical beam being filled with concrete collapsed Thursday at the ongoing construction site of SM City San Fernando. The beam, about 10 meters long, fell five floors down to the construction barracks of the workers […]