The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has issued guidelines requiring the drivers and operators of heavy vehicles carrying cement to have signs warning other motorists to keep a safe distance from them.
For safety purposes, developers of condo units especially for those highrise structures in Metro Manila should seek the approval of the Department of Energy if they are opted to install Liquified Petroleum Gas connection.—LPG Marketers’ Association (LPGMA) Partylist Rep. Arnel Ty
Flyovers and road intersections in Cebu City will be assessed to determine if these structures are safe for use by motorists, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said yesterday.
The guns are silent for now between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group but the military will secure the area to prevent a possible spillover of hostilities should the fighting erupt again.
Amid the religious frenzy comes a word of caution.
Fire authorities are discouraging the use of sky lanterns while the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is prohibiting the burning of tires during the New Year’s Eve revelry.
With drums rolling and horns blowing, Department of Health (DOH) officials took their anti-firecracker campaign, on Thursday to Pandacan, Manila—site of the Pandacan oil depot—to lobby for a safer means of merrymaking.
The constant checkpoints, patrols around the city, backtracking of criminal cases to profile suspects on how they operate, are among the reasons the crime rate in Mandaue City for November went down.
Malacañang ruled out, on Thursday, the lifting of a state of emergency in Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and Cotabato City, which was imposed in November 2009, by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the aftermath of the Maguindanao massacre.
The Cebu City Regional Trial Court (RTC) branch 23 ordered the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino to switch off one of its power generators whose continued operation endangered the health of residents in nearby areas. RTC branch 23 Judge Generosa Labra issued a Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) and directed Waterfront Hotel and Casino [...]
As individuals seeking elective posts in the 2013 midterm elections start trooping to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday (Oct. 1), so are the members of the 148,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP).
The Gospel according to St. John begins, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.” Is it only serendipity or is it divine foresight that there is a current obsession among post-modernist thinkers for words and their meanings? They believe that the words we use [...]
An anti-crime group on Tuesday called on the law-enforcement authorities to do something about the “continuous and rampant” drive-by shootings perpetrated by motorcycle-riding assailants, referred to by police as “riding-in-tandem gunmen.”
