Parañaque to LGUs: Spend prudently, collect taxes aggressively

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:14:31 +0000

The Commission on Audit’s (COA) recent findings that some local governments in Metro Manila were mired in debt reminded Parañaque City treasurer Anthony Pulmano

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DID YOU KNOW: 144 birth anniversary of Katipunera Marina Dizon

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 21:00:02 +0000

Today, July 18, is the 144th birth anniversary of Marina Dizon, one of the women members of the Katipunan. Born in Trozo, Manila, she served the Katipunan as a “lookout,” later becoming the secretary of the chapter. When the Katipunan was discovered on August 1896, she and her husband, Jose Turiano Santiago, fled from their […]

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Man shot dead while attending relative’s funeral in Manila

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:59:46 +0000

A man attending his relative’s funeral was shot dead Wednesday afternoon by two unidentified men aboard a motorcycle in Sampaloc, Manila.

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PACC disowns ‘official’ arrested in Taguig for threatening security guard

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:58:15 +0000

The PACC has denied that the man arrested in Taguig City for allegedly threatening a security guard there was one of their officials.

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Abandoned motorcycle stirs up bomb scare outside Army headquarters

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:29:27 +0000

Abandoned motorcycle stirs up bomb scare at Army headquarters

An abandoned motorcycle outside the gate of the Philippine Army headquarters caused alarm on Wednesday, prompting the response of the military’s bomb sniffing K-9 unit. 

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Manila gov’t intercepts 532 kilos of ‘hot meat’ in Divisoria

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:14:15 +0000

Manila gov't intercepts 532 kilos of 'hot meat' in Divisoria

The Veterinary Inspection Board (VIB) seized about 532 kilograms of “hot meat” in Divisoria with an estimated amount of P79,800

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Ermita police station chief says boy – a snatcher – not abducted

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:57:50 +0000

Boy abducted along Taft Avenue, Manila? No, it was a legitimate NBI operation. This was what the chief of Ermita police station said Tuesday.

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Kid in buy-bust crossfire died of brain injury – PNP autopsy

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:52:39 +0000

Kid in buy-bust crossfire died of brain injury – PNP autopsy

Kateleen Mica Ulpina, the three-year-old kid caught in the crossfire of a gunfight during a drug buy-bust in Rodriguez, Rizal, died of “brain injury secondary to a penetrating gunshot wound,” according to a police official, citing the result of an autopsy.

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Recto Avenue cleanup yields 200 sacks of plastic

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:24:04 +0000

Recto Avenue cleanup yields 200 sacks of plastic

MANILA, Philippines — City workers have collected about 200 sacks of discarded plastic packaging during their cleanup of sewers and drainage channels on some parts of Recto Avenue, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno announced on Tuesday. Much of the garbage blocking the drainage system of the road were plastic materials, according to Moreno. The drainage pipes […]

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