We don’t want to compromise the public safety. We will continue our operations against street children and juvenile delinquents in the city. We encourage parents of those children to do their share to ensure the welfare and to protect the rights of those kids.—Senior Supt. Richard Albano, district director of the Quezon City Police District Office
It pays to be alert when taking public transport.
Geohazard maps produced by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) are not effective tools to warn people against pending disasters simply because they are too technical and not understood by common people, a senator said here.
The chief of Philippine Coast Guard disclosed on Monday that the 100 Coast Guard personnel to be deployed during Wednesday’s Feast of the Black Nazarene “will man and secure the bridges, rivers and harbors along the route of the traditional procession.”
A former soldier who is now a barangay (village) official in Caloocan City was almost tagged Thursday a suspect in the killing of 7-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella in celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve.
The number of people injured by firecrackers during the Christmas and New Year holidays rose Thursday to nearly 800, still about 21 percent lower than the total injuries reported last year, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
Stephanie Nicole Ella, the 7-year-old girl who was hit in the head by a stray bullet while watching the fireworks show outside her Caloocan City home on New Year’s Eve, fought for 38 hours to stay alive.
Police have arrested 18 trigger-happy individuals for allegedly firing their guns during the New Year’s Eve revelry, as the number of injured from stray bullets climbed to 39, not including the two children who died of gunshot wounds.
By the time President Aquino’s helicopter lands late afternoon tomorrow in the South Road Properties (SRP), everyone near the templete should be in their seat or standing still. A 4 p.m. order for “no movement” is standard security for a president’s arrival. The national thanksgiving Mass in honor of San Pedro Calungsod starts at 5 [...]
The Department of Health cautioned the public Wednesday on the purchase of mugs for Christmas presents after an NGO found that some mugs being sold in Metro Manila were tainted with lead.
No new shipments of Nongshim noodles from South Korea will be allowed to get through any of the country’s ports, the Bureau of Customs said Wednesday.
Finally, if everything goes as planned, the days of spaghetti wires in Cebu City’s skyline will be history. The Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) announced that it will move its electric wires underground beginning with the ones lining both sides of Osmeña Boulevard. The announcement was made to editors and media executives in a luncheon hosted [...]
Angat dam in Bulacan was being closely monitored Friday due the continuously rising water level brought by strong rains upstream.
