The widespread flooding experienced last week in the metropolis has raised a question: Whatever happened to the master flood-control project promised by the government in 2012?
With a new anti-drunk driving act signed into law, the Department of Health and other related agencies will now have to determine the specific threshold level for blood alcohol contents, according to Malacañang.
MANILA, Philippines — “My name’s not on the list, not in the computer,’’ Undersecretary Abigail Valte tweeted Monday morning while lining up to cast her ballot in a public school in Makati City. After exhorting Filipinos to exercise their right to suffrage on the eve of the vote, the deputy presidential spokesperson failed to [...]
Malacañang on Saturday lauded the arrest of a suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured more than 170 others.
President Benigno Aquino III signed on Friday the measure amending the Anti-Money Laundering Act (Amla). Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte made the announcement in a text message sent out to the media.
The families of at least two of the victims in the Atimonan, Quezon shooting are getting impatient with Malacañang’s decision to go slow in reviewing the recommendations that the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation submitted to the Palace over a week ago.
Malacañang should be given more time to review a five-inch thick investigation report on the police killing of 13 alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon, on Jan. 6, officials said on Sunday.
Malacañang is providing security for whistle-blower Rodolfo Lozada Jr. but it cannot assure him of immunity from legal processes, a Palace spokesperson said yesterday.
The unexpected praise heaped on President Benigno Aquino III by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the country’s economic glow under his leadership is a “classic case of the student already surpassing the teacher,” Malacañang said on Saturday.
Whatever the military’s witness says will not affect the National Bureau of Investigation’s finding that the killings of 13 people in Atimonan, Quezon province, on Jan. 6 were not the results of a shootout between government security forces and alleged criminals, an NBI official said on Saturday.
Applicants, anyone? President Benigno Aquino III is looking for qualified officials to fill up vacancies in his administration less than a month before the start of the campaign period.
MALACAÑANG on Friday defended Justice Secretary Leila de Lima against criticism that she had prejudged the investigation of the killing of 13 people in a supposed shootout between government security forces and a group of alleged criminals in Atimonan, Quezon province, on Jan. 6.
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) would still be investigated in connection with the Jan. 6 shooting in Atimonan, Quezon, that left 13 dead, even if the body has denied ever approving the police operation against alleged jueteng operator Victor Siman, one of the fatalities in the alleged shootout, Malacañang said on Sunday.
