Quezon City's official spokesperson Pia Morato questioned on Friday, Feb. 4, the "political maturity" of Rep. Mike Defensor after the latter challenged Mayor Joy Belmonte to resign over alleged Commission on Audit (COA) “adverse findings” on local government's purchase of pandemic food packs....
The Marikina city government is targeting schools as the venue for the city’s upcoming vaccination drive for children ages 5 to 11 years old, Mayor Marcelino “Marcy” Teodoro said on Friday, Feb. 4. In an interview with ANC Headstart, Teodoro said schools are more practical venues for the...
The Valenzuela City government and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) inaugurated four parks at Disiplina Village in Barangay Bignay on Thursday morning, Feb. 3. The “friendship parks” project was a joint initiative under the MMDA Adopt-A-Park program which aims to reconstruct...
The Pateros municipal government announced that the vaccination of minors aged five to 11 will start on Feb. 7. Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III said this is to observe if there will be side effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine on kids. Parents can register their kids aged...
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian announced on Wednesday, Feb. 2 that 1,500 minors aged five to 11 have already listed for vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) since the registration opened on Tuesday, Feb.1. The vaccination for the said age group will start on Feb.7. In an...
Valenzuela City Mayor Rexlon “Rex” Gatchalian stressed the need for a “step-by-step” approach in addressing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The mayor made his point in response to some sectors’ call to lower Metro Manila’s quarantine status to Alert Level 1 and to remove...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Monday, Jan. 31, issued the guidelines that will be implemented while the city is under the Alert level 2 quarantine status from Feb.1 to 15. Under the latest guidelines, Ordinance No. SP-2301 S.2014 that sets the disciplinary hours for minors from 10 p.m. to 5...
The Pateros municipal government is aiming to vaccinate 6,000 minors aged five to 11 years old. According to Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III, the municipal government is ready for the vaccination of the age group, which will start with a pilot run on Feb. 4 in selected sites in Metro Manila....
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora expressed hope that the low number of COVID-19 infections in the city would continue despite the threat of the more transmissible Omicron and Delta variants. During his interview with CNN Philippines on Monday, Zamora said that the decline in active COVID-19 cases...
Senator Grace Poe on Monday defended her father, the late Fernando Poe, Jr. from presidential aspirant Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno’s campaign strategist, Lito Banayo after the latter claimed her father’s refusal to attend debates and interviews affected his presidential bid in May 2004. Poe,...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora said on Monday, Jan. 31, that the city is once again experiencing a rapid decline in COVID-19 cases after tallying 272 cases on Sunday, Jan. 30, coming from a record high 1,947 cases last Jan. 12. Zamora bared the good news in an interview with ANC. He said that...
Filipinos all over the country will be given access to clean and potable water if he wins in the upcoming 2022 May elections, said presidential hopeful and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso. PHOTO BY ALI VICOY/ MANILA BULLETIN “The data will show us that 97 percent of the...
