A Quezon City alderman is pushing for a measure that would require private and public school teachers in the city to undergo disaster risk reduction training and ensure the safety of students in their charge.
A PROPOSED ordinance requiring all Cebu City hospitals to set up a geriatric ward received support from some of the city’s hospital chiefs in the City Council’s session last Wednesday.
Quezon City now has a one-stop crisis center for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs) who fall victim to abuse and discrimination with Mayor Herbert Bautista’s signing of the ordinance for its establishment.
AN ordinance penalizing fisherfolk and vessels that insist on sailing despite storm warnings by the Coast Guard and state weather agency Pagasa is needed to discourage trips during bad weather, a top Coast Guard official said yesterday.
Men riding in pairs on motorcycles on the streets of Manila, beware.
Groups seeking to shut down the Pandacan oil depot in Manila will now have to bring their clamor straight to Malacañang, after Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim vetoed for the second time an ordinance that would lead to the facility’s closure.
For now, the oil depot in Pandacan will have to go.
Mayor Michael Rama plans to create a task force to eliminate stagnant water in the city to combat dengue fever.
A Quezon City councilor has sought the passage of an ordinance restricting the disposal or sale of old textbooks to junk shops and proposing penalties against those who treat the educational reading materials as garbage.
THE near-drowning of a 12-year-old girl at the Cebu City Sports Center swimming pool last week was a wake-up call, said Councilor Richie Osmeña.
Full compliance with a total plastic ban and a holistic approach should be pursued by the Cebu City government, environment groups said over the weekend.
Many welcomed the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as the new Chief Justice to succeed the impeached and removed Renato Corona. But many, too, were surprised that senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio was not appointed by the President despite the fact that he showed his moral mettle when he declined the nomination during the presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be the next Chief Justice—a midnight appointment contrary to the Constitution.
Two in a row. The Cebu City Council is getting its second veto from Mayor Michael Rama in less than a month, this time on an ordinance which prohibits him to sell lands in the South Road Properties without authorization from the local legislature.
