A 36-year-old homeless man was pinned to death by an oncoming bus along the EDSA Carousel in Quezon City Tuesday morning. Juano Suarez, a “taong hamog” or a homeless person, was found dead underneath the leftmost tire at the back portion of Jell Trans Inc. bus around 8 a.m., the Inter-Agency...
Women's advocate and Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte believed empowering women by giving them training, skills, and capital is one of the solutions to hunger in the family amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. According to Belmonte, when a mother has the capacity to set up her own business and earn by...
Planning a local food security action in every local government unit is important to ensure that no people will go hungry. This was what Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte of one of the country's largest cities learned during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. During a panel discussion held by the United...
Residents of a village in Quezon City have expressed concern over the policy of their barangay government requiring them to present their vaccination cards before giving them quarantine passes during the reimposition of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). Barangay Quirino 2-B residents are...
Quezon City residents will soon register their newly-born babies online as the local government is set to launch this year its first online birth registration portal. The local government made the announcement Monday, saying the project is part of its digitalization program of its public services....
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian has paid tribute to General Ye Fei, also known as Sixto Mercado Tiongco, who fought for China’s independence and helped in the founding of a “new China.” Monument of Chinese-Filipino Gen. Ye Fei or Sixto Mercado Tiongco at a memorial park in...
Police rescued on Friday a Chinese man from his eight abductors, including his girlfriend, who detained and robbed him inside a spa in Quezon City. The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) said the abductors—Jaypee Mangalindan, 22; Ralph Garma, 29; Rustom Laurencio, 22; Realan Labto, 33; Glenn...
Hundreds of employees of various private and public agencies in Quezon City have turned out positive for COVID-19 since the local government launched its free expanded swab testing last month. According to the local government, out of 4,932 individuals who were tested, 199 of them—mostly...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced Friday, July 30, that the enhanced nutribun will soon be available in Gumaca, Quezon. DOST-FNRI's enhanced nutribun technology (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said the enhanced nutribun...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Wednesday night clarified that a congratulatory poster for Hidilyn Diaz now circulating online, wherein her photo appears larger than the Olympic gold medalist's, did not come from her nor the local government. Belmonte said the poster was done by "malicious...
Senior citizens in District 2 of Quezon City were inoculated with Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) Janssen vaccine in a one-day rollout on Wednesday, July 28. Mayor Joy Belmonte said District 2 is the most densely populated area in the city and its senior citizens must be prioritized in the...
At least 82 cops from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), including those who were deployed during President Duterte’s 6th and last State of the Nation Address (SONA), have tested positive for COVID-19. Citing information from the city’s Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Unit (CESU),...
