QUEZON CITY — Metro Manila’s temperature sizzled at its highest so far this year at 35.3 degress Celsius last Thursday.
This was learned from the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).
“As of 3:00 p.m. Thursday, temperature hit 35.3 in Metro Manila. We can experience hotter days ahead as the summer season goes into full [...]

QUEZON CITY -– A Quezon City government official has reminded business establishments, particularly supermarkets, making their own interpretation of the law as provided for under Republic Act No. 9257 granting a five percent discount to senior citizens in the purchase of basic necessities and prime commodities.
Atty. Rene Altuna, legal officer at the Office for Senior [...]

QUEZON CITY – The weather bureau has asked the people to protect themselves against possible heat stroke as high temperatures are expected to continue  prevail in the country next month.
They must also bring umbrellas to shield themselves from the heat or stay indoors when the sun is hottest between noon and 3 p.m. 
“As of 3:30 [...]

MANILA – Vice Mayor Isko Moreno and members of the city council are facing raps over the sale of the Century Park Hotel property along Pablo Ocampo st. (formerly Vito Cruz) in Malate, Manila for P1 billion to a Lucio Tan company.
The case filed by the Kilusan Kontra Kabulukan at Katiwalian was raffled off to [...]

MAKATI CITY — The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has 100 slots for college students who want to earn extra cash this summer to help finance their education beginning this coming June.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said the students may be assigned duties ranging from administrative work to helping in the anti-smoking and anti-extortion crackdown.
Others may [...]

QUEZON CITY – Plans are afoot for the government to allow quarrying in Rodriguez town (formerly Montalban) which is on top of the Marikina East Valley fault line.
Reports showed that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to approve the quarrying permit of San Rafael Development Corp. in the area despite warnings [...]

QUEZON CITY – The country’s wealthiest local government unit has simplified the process of doing business in the city by cutting down by at least seven procedural steps the processing time for application of a new business.
Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista made the disclosure as the city adopted the Philippine Business Registry System for faster [...]

MANILA – The Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension to Bacoor, Cavite’s most populous town, will soon be a reality.
This as the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) chaired by President Benigno S. Aquino III, approved the project together with 11 other projects worth P122 billion.
The LRT 1 extension project will cost P60 billion, according to [...]

MANILA – Former Environment Secretary and Manila Mayor Lito Atienza has filed a petition before the Supreme Court (SC) questioning a Commission on Elections (Comelec) ruling dismissing his election protest against Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim in 2011.
In a 19-page petition for review, Atienza said that the Comelec en banc committed grave abuse of discretion [...]

LAS PINA CITY – Former Las Piñas congresswoman Cynthia Villar and the people of the city are up in arms against the government’s plan to reclaim land on Manila Bay coastline covering her city, Paranaque City and Bacoor in Cavite.
Villar, wife of Sen. Manuel B. Villar Jr., armed with a petition signed by more than [...]