CEBU CITY – Dismissed Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama continues to insist he is still the city’s chief executive. RAMA Considering himself as the rightful mayor, Rama refused to return a Cebu City Hall-owned vehicle despite repeated demands from the city government. In a letter addressed to the...
A skater shows off his skills during the launching of the East Bank Skate Park. (Photo from MMDA) The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), in partnership with the Pasig City local government, officially opened the East Bank Skate Park plus Linear Park and TODA Terminal on Thursday,...
BACOLOD CITY – The city government has started the demolition of the old site of the Manokan Country in Barangay 12 here this week, 40 years after it was built in the 1980s. MANOKAN Country in Barangay 12, Bacolod City is being demolished to give way to the P4-billion redevelopment project....
CEBU CITY – A new Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) building is rising. CEBU City Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia (sixth from right) leads the groundbreaking of the new Cebu City Police Office building. (Contributed photo) Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia and CCPO director Police Col. Enrico Figueroa on...
CEBU CITY – Toledo City is open to businesses and development as long as requirements are complied. Toledo City Mayor Joie Perales emphasized this after a case was filed against her before the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly not acting on the application for reclassification of land in...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte called on the public to remain vigilant as the risk of authoritarian rule resurfaces again. MAYOR Duterte Duterte made the call during the 39th anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The popular...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Albee Benitez has proposed allowing Kanlaon Volcano evacuees stay at unoccupied housing units in Barangay Felisa here for the meantime. LA Castellana, Negros Occidental Mayor Rhummyla Nicor-Mangilimutan (seated left) meets Bacolod Mayor Albee Benitez at the Bacolod City...
DAVAO CITY – The local government unit of Matalam in Cotabato province has stepped in to resolve the land conflict in the remote Barangay Ilian after tensions sparked on Tuesday, Feb. 25. VICE Mayor Ralph Ryan Rafael facilitates a dialogue in Barangay Ilian, Matalam, Cotabato....
Mayor Abby Binay “You think it's common sense, but I realize that common sense is not very common." This was what Makati City Mayor and senatorial aspirant Abby Binay said on Monday, Feb. 24, as she reaffirmed her commitment to being the “People’s Voice in the Senate” by ensuring that laws...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL As I write this column, there is a steady stream of media reports that the head of the Catholic Church is in critical condition and that the Catholic faithful all over the world are praying for the healing and recovery of the much-loved and sometimes controversial Pope...
DAGUPAN CITY – Sen. Grace Poe and Mayor Belen Fernandez on Monday, Feb. 24, led the groundbreaking for the MacArthur Memorial building in honor of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's landing at Bonuan Blue Beach here in 1945. SEN. Grace Poe and Mayor Belen Fernandez lead the...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, together with Department of Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr., spearheads the sale of NFA rice at P1,650 per sack, equivalent to P33 per kilogram, under the Food Security Emergency Program of the National Government on Monday, Feb. 24. (Santi San...
