Rama to press on with seniors aid in March
Amid opposition from a hostile City Council, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama ordered the City Treasurer’s Office to process the allocation of the senior citizens assistance for next month.
Amid opposition from a hostile City Council, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama ordered the City Treasurer’s Office to process the allocation of the senior citizens assistance for next month.
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama wants a quarterly distribution of senior citizen’s assistance.

Felipa Kabigting can be up and about as early as 4 a.m. In the early-morning sun she can be seen doing some stretching by a street post not far from home in Barangay Guadalupe Viejo, Makati City. This is followed by a bath and a dab of astringent, lotion, lipstick and then cologne. In two hours her daily ritual is over.
HUNDREDS of senior citizens waited patiently at the Mabolo Elementary School Sports Center for their P4,000 cash assistance from the Cebu City government at noon yesterday.
THE Mandaue City government started distributing P1,000 financial assistance to 12,000 qualified senior citizens at the Mandaue Sports and Cultural Complex last Monday. The city will release the balance of P1,000 in December. “We plan to increase the financial aid to senior citizens depending on the availability of funds,” said Councilor Jefferson Ceniza, chairman of [...]
BY the time his story sees print, he is now back in the desert.

A 97-year-old retired Australian dentist was to receive his masters degree in clinical science on Friday in what Southern Cross University said could make him the world’s oldest new graduate.
A 79-year-old man was arrested on Monday for allegedly stealing a small bag of chocolate worth P36 at a grocery store in Manila.
THE Mandaue City government yesterday started giving P1,000 financial assistance to the more than 10,000 senior citizens.

She may look like your ordinary grandmother, but this 67-year-old managed to do something not very many people her age can do: Become city mayor for one week.
MANILA, Philippines—The stench of death led to the discovery Friday afternoon of the body of an 88-year-old widow inside her house in Manila. Manila Police District homicide section investigators theorized that Cresencia Villoria of 2269 Granate Street, Barangay 801 Zone 87, in San Andres Bukid, could have tripped, hit her head and died from the [...]