Makati now a sin city
By Ramon TulfoI received several text messages about Saturday’s column which was headlined, “Corrupt exec gets high trust rating.”
I received several text messages about Saturday’s column which was headlined, “Corrupt exec gets high trust rating.”
CAMARINES NORTE, Bicol – THERE IS no doubt that Camarines Norte province is poor. Why this is so is a sore point to local officials who lament that the province—the other half of the affluent Camarines Sur—has been cut off from its wealthy neighbors, literally placing it so near yet so far to progress. The [...]
THE WORLD of smokers like President Aquino is getting smaller every day, but that doesn’t faze Malacañang’s chief tenant. “We don’t have any problem with that and, of course, it’s the law and we all have to follow it,” the President’s spokesperson Abigail Valte said on Saturday in reaction to a statement from the Metropolitan [...]
THE MAKATI City government has shut down a cockpit on Mascardo Street in Barangay Singkamas after authorities found out it was operating without a license. In a statement, Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. said he issued the closure order upon the recommendation of the city’s business permits office which discovered that the arena, owned [...]
