Biñan City LGU starts distribution of 'Pamaskong Handog'

After the natural calamities that hit Laguna province this year, it was the least the city government of Biñan, Laguna under Mayor Gel Alonte has in store for residents who desperately needed something to cheer on.

EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT

As the Christmas season approached, government agencies publicly pledged that essential food prices would be kept in check to ease household budgets.

DTI’s Holiday Pricing Folly

P500 for Noche Buena?

In 2023, about 1 in every 5 families in Eastern Visayas lived below the poverty threshold, that’s a poverty incidence among families of 20.3 percent.

FANTASY, NOT FRUGALITY

It was a historic event for San Pedro City, Laguna, as it welcomed its first ever fully air-conditioned public classrooms.

BETTER LEARNING SOON?

Tanauan mayor faces charges

In a ruling that sent shockwaves through local political circles, the Office of the Ombudsman has indicted Tanauan, Leyte Mayor Gina Merilo for allegedly skirting the law to hire two political allies just months after they lost in the May 2022 elections.

ILLEGAL APPOINTMENTS

Is the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) becoming an ironic oxymoron?
When it was created in 1966 by virtue of Republic Act No. 4850, LLDA was tasked to “carry out the development of the Laguna Lake region with due regard and adequate provisions for environmental management and control, preservation of the quality of human life and ecological systems, and the prevention of undue ecological disturbances, deterioration and pollution.”
But it now appears that the opposite is happening.
Not only has Laguna de Bay worsened throughout the years, it seems that the very government agency tasked to solve the problem has grown cold to efforts both by local government units and the private sector to address the issue of flooding in communities near the lake.
Meanwhile, residents living near Laguna de Bay face the prospect of spending Christmas and New Year submerged in knee-deep waters as the continued run-off from the rivers surrounding the lake strain its capacity.

LLDA: Roadblock?

Biñan City LGU under Mayor Gel Alonte receives numerous accolades

“Gusto ko na sa pagsisimula ng aking termino bilang local chief executive, tama ang ating gagawin, at unti-unti ay maitatama natin ang anuman ang dapat itama.”

POSITIVE START

Zaldy’s billion-peso

The highly controversial P4.5-billion Tacloban Causeway Project, which was touted as a game-changing link between Tacloban City Hall and DZR Airport, is now sputtering to a halt after formal charges were filed before the Ombudsman against contractor and resigned Ako Bicol Partylist Representative Zaldy Co.

CAUSEWAY CAPER

Cabuyao City PESO moves towards inclusive development

This year, as the administration of Cabuyao City, Laguna Mayor Dennis "Denha" Hain enters into its second term, officials are now ready to enter into a new chapter towards the fulfillment of its goal: that of inclusive economic growth for all Cabuyeños.

FORGING PARTNERS

Leyteños say on Imee Marcos’ paternity issue

There are many absurd (but true) accusations about the Marcos family that had been racked up against them by their political opponents both during and after the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.

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