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By admin • November 3rd, 2011

Anticorruption groups today sign a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of the Interior and Local Government to jointly undertake a project which aims to end the rampant abuse of government-issued vehicles we popularly call “red plates”. Representatives of the Makati Business Club- Coalition Against Corruption and the Partnership for Transparency Fund witness the actual [...]

Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Bill 1963 or the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Reform Bill as registration period for the upcoming barangay and SK elections opens on August 6.

“It is our belief that the basic local government unit of the youth should not be abolished as proposed by many. What SK needs is for it to be strengthened and empowered,” said Palatino.

HB is a revised and improved version of HB 6870 first filed by Palatino in the 14th Congress.

In line with the consecutive cases of oil spills, Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond Palatino today filed House Resolution No. 136 in the 15th Congress to conduct an investigation on all the petroleum service contracts and pipelines franchises granted by the national government to private oil companies.
“Recent reports of oils spills are most alarming given the [...]

ISABELA CITY , Philippines  – The Basilan police director escaped unhurt but two of his police escorts were killed when they were ambushed by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants in Sumisip town Wednesday afternoon.
One of the militants was killed during the ensuing firefight, police said.
Senior Superintendent Antonio Mendoza, Basilan police director, said they were on [...]

Joint elements of the Philippine Coast Guard and PNP Maritime Group arrested incumbent Plaridel, Misamis Occidental Mayor Ernie Clarete and his two body guards at the Port of Batangas earlier around 10 a.m. today due to violation of the COMELEC Gun Ban…
Lt Cdr Troy Cornelio, Coast Guard Station Batangas Chief said that his men were [...]

Four months since the brutal carnage of the 57 people – 32 of them were media workers – justice have not been served. And it seems, according to media groups, that “the judicial road to justice will be very, very long and very, very tortuous to navigate.”
Led by members of the Philippine Center for Photojournalism [...]

Tertiary schools could no longer bar students with unpaid tuition from taking exams, after the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) issued a memorandum against the “no permit, no exam” policy, which is a common rule enforced by schools to ensure that students pay tuition on time.
Under the order, Ched stated that “higher education institutions shall [...]

Two senior officials of the New People’s Army (NPA) wanted for criminal charges were arrested by authorities in Zamboanga del Norte in southern Philippines, the military said on Wednesday.
Police and military elements arrested top NPA officials Maria Luisa Purcray and Allen Solis on Tuesday at a checkpoint along Dicayo village in Katipunan town, Zamboanga del [...]

Contrary to claims of Mayor Jorge Almonte, the Office of the Ombudsman  Mindanao have rightly set aside the case filed before the office against former Vice Mayor Lemuel Meyrick Acosta.
The case is good as dead. with a reply from no less than Deputy Ombudsman Hon. Humphrey Monteroso, the Office of the Ombudsman cites that the [...]

The Oroquieta Sangguniang Panlungsod passed  on Wednesday January 26, 2010 a resolution supporting the Executive Agreement entered into by and between Mayor Jorge T. Almonte and the Philippine National Bank concerning the 180-million loan venture that the Local Government  will use to construct the  Town Center.
But civil society organizations, business sector groups and people’s organizations [...]

The City Social Welfare and Development Office  have recently achieved initial success over an incest-rape case filed against a 39 year-old farmer. Elevent counts of rape have been filed against Danilo Anino who pleaded guilty in the initial inquest proceedings citing dependence to illegal drugs as cause of his criminal act.
“He will rot in prison”, [...]

ECOLINK Philippines, one of the leading developmental NGO in the Southern Philippines, has released the results of the first of the monthly scientific survey it conducted relating to the upcoming 2010 elections.
With a total respondents of 400 registered voters and a +/- 2 margin  of error, Manny Villar tops among the presidential bets with  a [...]

Headlines:
Ombudsman sets aside case vs Acosta; “It’s God’s will”, Lemuel says.
Scientific Survey Result: Blanco, Guantero, Acosta Villar on the lead
CSWD Scores on Rape Case vs Suspect
Mga Tanods nakasikop ug inilang suspetsado sa Kawat