QUEZON CITY — Lawyer Alan Paguia is considering to file charges against members of the Senate for allegedly neglecting their constitutional duty to conduct the impeachment trial of former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
“They have an impeachment complaint and should have undertaken proceedings on the matter but didn’t,” he said on the side of Saturday Forum @ [...]

CAMP CRAME, Quezon City – The Philippine National Police (PNP) has declared an all-out war against gunmen riding in tandem on motorcycles and responsible for the murder of 2,089 persons in 2011 and counting.
PNP chief Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome issued the order because of the string of high-profile criminal activities committed with impunity by [...]

MAKATI CITY — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority plans to  re-green the 24-kilometer long Epifanio De Los Santos (EDSA) Avenue, the metropolis’ prime thoroughfare.

“We want to turn EDSA into the urban greenway of Metro Manila, that’s why we decided to push for this project which is also in line with President Aquino’s national re-greening program,” [...]

QUEZON CITY – The Quezon City government continues to lead all local government units in the country with a revenue collection of more than P12 billion last year.
The collection was P 1.5 billion higher than the city’s revenue collection in 2010, further boosting its status as the nation’s richest local government unit.
With the record high [...]

PARANAQUE CITY — The brother of slain actor Ramgen “Revilla” Bautista pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and frustrated murder charges before the Paranaque City Regional Trial Court (RTC).
Ramon Joseph “RJ” Bautista entered the plea during his arraignment before Paranaque RTC Branch 274 Presiding Judge Fortunito Madrona in connection with the killing of [...]

MUNTINLUPA CITY — Two more secret illegal drugs laboratories have been uncovered at the posh Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa City.
Law enforcers who raided the “shabu” labs found P15 million worth of drugs, chemicals and drugs equipment in the new raids at a house on 119 Kanlaon St. and another at 536 Country Club Drive [...]

MANILA – The Court of Appeals (CA) has stopped the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) from awarding 24 hectares of land to a claimant along Visayas Ave., Quezon City.
In a seven-page resolution of the CA Special Former Special 6th Division, penned by Associate Justice Rodil Zalameda, the CA extended the 60-day temporary restraining order [...]

QUEZON CITY – Watch out for rain and tropical cyclone this month up to the summer months this year.
The warning was issued by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) which said the La Niña weather phenomenon is set to hit its peak this January and could still threaten the country with a [...]

MANILA – Fewer Filipino nurses are finding it less attractive to work in the United States.
This surfaced after only 5,630 took the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEx) of the US in 2011 compared to 9,789 in 2010.
That is a drop of 42 percent, said LPG party-list Rep. Arnel Ty.
Ty said the small number, in [...]

MANILA — A shabu laboratory inside a posh gated subdivision like Ayala Alabang Village?
What appeared to be impossible in the past finally happened when operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) found a shabu laboratory during a raid in a gated compound inside the Ayala Alabang Village in Muntinlupa City last week.
The raiders confiscated [...]