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Inflation exceeds BSP forecast
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MANILA, Philippines?Annual inflation rose higher than expected in February to reach its highest since May, according to a report released on Friday by the National Statistics Office (NSO). The annual inflation rate hit 4.3 percent in February, exceeding the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas forecast for the month of between 3 and 4.1 percent. The BSP has acknowledged that the faster-than-expected increase in prices may mean that the… Read More
Chief of Calamba traffic group shot dead
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CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna?The chief of the City Traffic Management Office in Calamba City was shot dead Friday morning, police said…. Read More
5.7 magnitude quake rocks southern Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines – Officials say a 5.7 magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, collapsing the walls of some… Read More
Ombudsman files torture charges vs cops in Abadilla 5 case
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MANILA, Philippines?The Office of the Ombudsman has filed criminal charges against policemen who allegedly tortured the Abadilla 5 following their 1996 arrest on suspicion that they were behind the killing of a dreaded Marcos-era police intelligence officer. The policemen are facing charges of four counts of maltreatment of prisoners, one count of violation of the rights of arrested persons and one count of delay in the… Read More
Authorities seize chicken offal in Bacolod
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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines?The Office of the Provincial Veterinarian in Negros Occidental has seized 540 kilograms of chicken offal unfit for human consumption, Provincial… Read More
Massacre trial speeded up
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BY ASHZEL HACHERO THE Quezon city court hearing the multiple murder cases in last year Read More
Police step up security at LRT, MRT
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MANILA, Philippines?The railway police, a unit under the public safety battalion of the National Capital Region Police Office, has stepped up its monitoring and security efforts along the… Read More
Investigator welcomes reopening of Glorietta blast probe
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MANILA, Philippines?A former police officer who led the investigation of the 2007 Glorietta 2 explosion welcomed calls for a reinvestigation of the incident after the leader of an Army Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit claimed that the official probe was a cover-up. But retired police Director Geary Barias, who was chief of the National Capital Region Police Office at the time, stood by the findings of a multi-agency task force that investigated the blast and insisted it was caused by… Read More
Senate closes Lacson office
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MANILA, Philippines?Mounting pressure from the Commission on Audit has forced the Senate leadership to close the office of fugitive Senator Panfilo Lacson. Lacson’s colleagues arrived at the decision in an emergency caucus in the middle of their session last Wednesday, according to one senator, who asked not to be… Read More
Better management of Bacolod-Silay airport urged
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BACOLOD CITY, Philippines?Members of the Negros Occidental provincial board have called for an improvement in the management of the Bacolod-Silay Airport following numerous complaints. In a dialog with airport manager Felizardo Toralba at the Vice Governor’s Office at the Capitol in Bacolod City on Tuesday, the provincial… Read More
Mactan airport upgrade among Aquino infrastructure priorities
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CEBU CITY, Philippines?President Aquino on Wednesday assured the business sector in the Visayas that infrastructure projects would be among his administration’s top priority under the private-public partnership program. Read More
SBMA per diem not authorized?COA
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MANILA, Philippines ? The Commission on Audit has found that the continuous granting of the P20,000 per diem given per meeting to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority’s board of directors in 2009 did not have permission from the Office of the President. The granting of the unauthorized per diem resulted in the P5.7-million overpayment of claims, the COA said. In its 2009 report on the SBMA, the COA said that the P20,000 per diem had been allowed in previous years because of an exemption from the Office of the President… Read More
Family planning program suffers due to flip-flopping politicians — official
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MANILA, Philippines — Flip-flopping by the political leadership has rendered the country’s family planning program ineffective, health officials said on Tuesday. Dr. Honorata Catibog, director III of the Family Health Office ? National Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the Department of Health, said that the evaluation and strategic reviews of the program in different agencies implementing family planning activities showed that a shift in policy pronouncements in the national level has affected its implementation in the local scene. Read More
Cop sacked for unauthorized presence at hostage site
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MANILA, Philippines ? The National Capital Region Police Office has relieved a Manila police officer for joining without proper authorization the SWAT assault team during… Read More
Immigration bureau directs employees to settle cash advances
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MANILA, Philippines?The Bureau of Immigration directed all of the agency’s officials and employees with outstanding cash advances to liquidate them as soon as possible or face possible administrative and criminal charges. The Office of the Ombudsman reported that the bureau had nearly P10 million in unliquidated cash advances,… Read More
Ombudsman says ‘euro generals’ lied
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MANILA, Philippines?The 12 retired and active police officials and three civilians involved in the case of the so-called ‘euro generals’ lied about the source of the money they were carrying in Moscow in 2008, according to initial findings of the Office of the Ombudsman. It was also found that the money comprised a private fund, contrary to the officials’ assertions at the Senate inquiry that the 105,000 euros (P6.9 million) seized from then Director Eliseo dela Paz at the Moscow international airport had come from the Philippine National Police’s contingency funds. In a press conference Thursday, Assistant Ombudsman Jose de Jesus Jr Read More
Education Is Not The Hope
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Of course, education is hope, or usually is. Read More
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