The San Juan City local government announced on Friday, Aug. 18, its plan to remove bollard dividers from bike lanes to help ease traffic congestion and improve mobility flow as the city gradually return to normalcy after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. "During the peak of the pandemic, San Juan...
Photo from Ali Vicoy/MANILA BULLETIN Close to 1,000 people attended the burial of former Manila Vice Mayor Danilo "Danny" Bautista Lacuna at the Manila South Cemetery on Friday afternoon, Aug. 18. A funeral ceremony was held in Manila City Hall at around 1 p.m., where local government...
The Mandaluyong City local government has passed of a resolution urging businesses in the city to hire senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) and to forge partnerships and agreements with other sectors of the community to open more jobs for them, it was announced Friday, August 18....
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has ordered the city government to conduct an extensive investigation into the wall collapse at a construction site in Quezon City Hall compound that left one person dead and three others injured on Thursday evening, Aug. 17. “Inatasan na natin si City Engineer...
The Pasig City Police Station (CPS) and AMA Computer College (AMACC) Pasig joined forces to deliver more livelihood opportunities and outreach programs for communities within the city. A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed on Friday morning, Aug. 18, in a ceremony in the conference room at the...
Police seized a total of P544,000 worth of illegal drugs from two women and a man tagged as high-value individuals (HVIs) in Marikina City on Thursday, Aug. 17. Eastern Police District (EPD) Director Wilson Asueta identified the suspects as Marcelo Grande Jr., 39; Fatima Pastores, 35; and Bainot...
The Taguig City government criticized the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) for issuing an opinion that a writ of execution is needed to enforce the Supreme Court (SC) decision transferring 10 barangays in Makati to Taguig. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2021, the SC ruled that the...
A construction worker died while four others were hurt after a wall at a construction site at the Quezon City Hall compound collapsed on Thursday evening, Aug. 17. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said that rescuers responded to the area after the wall collapsed at the Civic Center B Building,...
Six men were arrested by members of the Pasig and Mandaluyong police stations in separate drug busts. In Pasig, three suspects were arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at around 12:30 a.m. in Barangay Pinagbuhatan. The suspects were identified by Eastern Police District (EPD) Director Wilson...
The San Juan City local government said that it will hold its “Makabagong San Juan Barangay Caravan” in Barangay Onse on Friday, Aug. 18, as part of its efforts in expanding the distribution of quality services to residents. Makabagong San Juan Barangay Caravan is the city's first one-stop-shop...
A man was arrested by police after he stabbed dead another man in Barangay 101, Tondo, Manila on Thursday morning, Aug. 17. The Manila Police District identified the suspect as John Mark Agrada, 25, a resident of Barangay 101 in Tondo. Police said barangay personnel discovered a man...
Two Quezon City regional trial courts have dismissed the illegal recruitment cases filed against former broadcaster Jay Sonza. Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 100 Presiding Judge Editha Mina-Aguba signed on Thursday, Aug. 17, an order dismissing the syndicated and large-scale illegal...
