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(Eagle News) — The Metro Rail Transit 3 management has reminded the public to remain from throwing trash in the vicinity of stations. The MRT-3 issued the reminder after they were forced to regulate trains on the northbound and southbound lanes at 1:57 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, following the discovery of a cloth (“lona”) in the overhead catenary system at the interstation of Boni and Shaw Boulevard in the northbound direction. The OCS is a system of overhead wires used […]
(Eagle News)—The executive secretary of former Makati Mayor Junjun Binay was shot on Thursday, March 21. The police said a man on board a motorcycle shot Monaliza Bernardo from behind in Barangay Olympia at 8:50 p.m. “She was shot in [front] of her own house… my old friend and long-serving executive assistant. She is a friend of 30 years since we were still part of Sangguniang Kabataan,” Binay said in a statement released early Friday, […]
(Eagle News) — The Court of Appeals has upheld its previous ruling that reversed the dismissal from government service of former Makati Mayor Junjun Binay for the allegedly anomalous construction of the P2.2-billion Makati City Hall Parking Building II. In denying the the appeal of the Ombudsman, which ordered Binay dismissed from government service in 2015, of its May 2018 ruling, the former 10th division reiterated the condonation doctrine which says that a “public official […]
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has rejected the application of Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek to operate as a transport network company in the Philippines. In a statement, the Department of Transportation said it rejected the application of Velox Technology Philippines Inc. “for failure to pass nationality requirements in the country’s foreign ownership laws.” Velox Philippines is a local subsidiary of Go-Jek. According to the LTFRB, the Pre-Accreditation Committee of the LTFRB saw […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Immigration has intercepted three women who planned to work as Overseas Filipino Workers in Saudi Arabia even without meeting the required age for household workers. In a statement on Thursday, March 21, BI port operations division chief Grifton Medina said that the three, whom he did not identify, were apprehended in Terminal 1 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 last Sunday. Under the law, it is prohibited to reveal […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Transportation’s MRT-7 Project Traffic Management Task Force has announced the closure of selected lanes on North Ave., East Ave. and Elliptical Road in Quezon City on Thursday, March 21. In an advisory, the task force said the EDSA-bound lanes of North Avenue from Elliptical Road up to Mindanao Avenue will be closed starting 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. on Friday, March 22. It said on the same night, one lane along Elliptical […]
(Eagle News) — Firemen are now battling a raging fire in a residential area in Bgy. Damayang Lagi near E. Rodriguez, Quezon City. The fire Wednesday afternoon, March 20, showed the blaze as seen from a road a few blocks away. The fire started at 1:27 p.m, and reached Task Force Alpha, around 2 p.m., according to the Bureau of Fire Protection in Quezon City
(Eagle News)–Six people were hurt after a fire hit a residential area in Quezon City on Wednesday, March 20. Around 70 families were also affected by the fire which broke out in Block 5 of Barangay Damayang Lagi at 1:27 p.m. P2 million worth of property was damaged. The blaze reached the general alarm before it was put out past 5 p.m.
(Eagle News) — Manila Water announced on Tuesday, March 19, that its customers will “now have longer hours of water availability daily as compared to last week.” The water concessionaire made the announcement a day after its president and CEO, Ferdinand dela Cruz attended a House panel hearing on the water crisis. During the hearing, he apologized to Manila Water’s 1.6 million customers in Metro Manila and Rizal for the severe water interruptions that had […]
(Eagle News)—The Metro Rail Transit-3 on Tuesday, March 19, announced the shutdown of its operations for one week in April. In a Facebook post, the MRT-3 said the shutdown from April 15 to April 21 was to give way to the annual general maintenance of the MRT-3 trains and others. “Maintenance works that will be done during the one week suspension of revenue operations include rail grinding, rail cascading, replacement of turnouts, structural testing and […]
Ni Mar Gabriel Eagle News Reporter (Eagle News) – Randam na rin ng mga bilanggo sa Quezon City Jail ang kakulangan sa suplay ng tubig lalot sakop ng distribution area ng Manila Water ang bilanguan. Ang bawat gang ay mayroon ng kanya kanyang skedyul ng pagligo. Hindi raw kasi kaya ng pressure ng tubig ang sabayang pagbubukas ng gripo. “Sa pangkat ng DCJ pagka-gumamit sila ng tubig, nawawalan ng supply ang sputnik. Pero mas lalo […]
(Eagle News)—-The Sandiganbayan has imposed a 90-day suspension on Quezon City councilor and comedian Roderick Paulate in connection with the graft cases he is facing. This was after the eleventh division found that all the conditions that warrant the suspension were found in the case of Paulate, who, together with his aide driver Vicente Bajamunde, is accused of falsifying documents and hiring ghost employees causing undue injury worth P1.1 million to the government. The anti-graft division ruled the […]
