Laguna polls: Some showbiz people doing better than others
By Romulo O. Ponte
Many movie actors and show business personalities in Laguna are enjoying leads in the latest tallies of election returns but others are not as lucky.
Many movie actors and show business personalities in Laguna are enjoying leads in the latest tallies of election returns but others are not as lucky.
Laguna Bishop Buenaventura M. Famadico told parish priests, religious and members of the Laguna clergy to allow their parish lay leaders to run for elective positions in the May 13 elections without asking them to file their courtesy resignations.
An eight-hour monstrous traffic affecting a nine-kilometer stretch of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) occurred starting early morning on Holy Thursday because of enormous volumes of Holy Week travellers going to various destinations and two minor accidents, according to the South Luzon Tollway Corporation (SLTC) operatives.
The massive floods that covered a large part of Laguna in August have receded but many residents in the affected areas are still to see dry land, according to the Provincial Disaster Risks Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC).
The Siniloan River overflowed early Saturday after a night of relentless rain, flooding the town of Siniloan and outlying villages barely a week after evacuees at the Siniloan Central School building returned to their homes, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said.
Church bells in all parishes in the Diocese of San Pablo, Laguna, and all other parishes in the province will ring on Sunday to “echo the joy of thanksgiving” for the canonization of the Philippines’ second saint, Pedro Calungsod.
More than 300,000 people languish in evacuation centers and flooded homes a month after monsoon rains inundated hundreds of villages and raised water levels in a lake in the province of Laguna, a government welfare agency said in a report.
The southwest monsoon rains (Habagat) which spawned flooding that submerged low-lying villages in 19 towns and cities in Laguna province destroyed P410.3 million worth of agriculture products.
Students and teachers of Siniloan National High School (SNHS) in Siniloan town in Laguna must carefully cross improvised bamboo bridges from the campus gates to the second floor of their building to reach their classrooms.
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—Government efforts are now shifting to providing attention to health and sanitation at the evacuation centers in Laguna and Rizal, a top disaster official in Calabarzon said on Friday.
“There is nothing wrong with cooking. There is also nothing wrong with being a farmer.” Iandycel C. Mijares, a tricycle driver’s daughter and a food technology graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) in Laguna, kept her audience glued to what she had to say.
Mario A. Mallari Jr., 46, did not finish his architecture course, as he married early and worked as a draftsman to be able to raise his six children.
The families of the 13 victims of the massacre in Mendiola 25 years ago, with members and supporters from a militant farmers organization, will stage a two-day mass protest in front of the Supreme Court and the historic Mendiola in Manila on Thursday and Friday.
