Hundreds gather for Lim’s miting de avance in Tondo
By Maila Ager
Hundreds of people mostly wearing yellow shirts flocked at the Plaza Hernandez in Tondo, Manila on Thursday for the miting de avance of re-electionist Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim’s team.
Hundreds of people mostly wearing yellow shirts flocked at the Plaza Hernandez in Tondo, Manila on Thursday for the miting de avance of re-electionist Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim’s team.
The bid to block former President Joseph Estrada to run as mayor of Manila is not yet over. This, after Atty. Alicia Risos-Vidal went to the Supreme Court questioning the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that dismissed with finality her disqualification complaint against the former president.
A mayor of a town in Isabela province was shot dead outside a Quezon City inn on Tuesday night.
At least 7,000 supporters of Lucena Mayor Barbara Ruby Talaga held a rally here on Wednesday to press for a reversal of a Supreme Court decision that unseated Barbara as city mayor.
The mayor of a town in Camarines Sur who was shot in the head by a lone gunman on Saturday died at 1:20 a.m. Sunday, his attending doctor at the hospital said.
The Makati city government’s business tax collection this year has gone up by 14 percent, an increase worth P600 million, which would trickle down to its budget for the succeeding years, Mayor Junjun Binay announced Tuesday.
Quezon City’s P12-billion budget for 2013 has been approved, most of which would be used for general and social services, particularly public infrastructure development and disaster risk reduction.
Manila City Mayor Alfredo Lim has only until Sept. 8 or Saturday to veto ordinance no. 7461, a local law, which will pave the way for the removal of oil refineries in Pandacan, according to Ernesto “Jong” C. Isip, 3rd district councilor of Manila.
It appears that the recent legal battle between Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim and the city council over the hiring of casual employees is a case of history repeating itself.
The administration of Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has dragged city hall in a deep financial hole, according to a Commission on Audit report, which claims that the local government unit has not enough cash to pay off its debts due to a bloated workforce.
A municipal mayor, a government employee and five communist rebels were charged for the murder in April of a Regional Trial Court judge in Ilog town, Negros Occidental.
Former President Joseph Estrada is flirting with the idea of wrapping up his political career the way he started it: as mayor. But this time, he is eyeing the post in Manila where he was born, and not in San Juan City where his family has built a political dynasty.
The spate of deadly incidents in Taguig City last week has prompted Mayor Ma. Laarni Cayetano to call for a reevaluation of the local government’s peace and order strategy.
