Archive for December, 2007

Business: LPG dealers told: comply with laws

Monday, December 31st, 2007

ALL persons or entities engaged in the business of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) are forewarned to comply with all existing laws, rules and regulations set by the Department of Energy (DOE), or face stiff penalties.

Feature: CM student as 2007 PSQ Nat’l champion

Monday, December 31st, 2007

BENSON E. Dusaran, a freshman BS in Chemistry student from the Central Mindanao University in Bukidnon, bested 16 other hopefuls from various regions in the country to bring home the national championship trophy in the 16th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) held at the Bureau of Soils and Water Management in Diliman, Quezon City last December 4, 2007.

Opinion: Editorial: Loan arrangements

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THE local opposition certainly had a point when it questioned the proposed ordinance authorizing the mayor’s office to enter into a loan arrangement with the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) amounting to half a billion pesos to, among other things, buy back the Carmen and Cogon market projects that were re-developed through costly Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) setups.

News: Thieves hit storage, make off with P200-T

Monday, December 31st, 2007

BUTUAN CITY — The Philippine National Police (PNP) is eyeing the possibility of an inside job in the robbery of a Beer Na Beer warehouse in Barangay 1, San Francisco, Agusan del Sur last Friday evening.

Two robbers armed with .38 revolvers and a bladed weapon entered the main gate at 7:30 p.m. Friday and declared a holdup on Beer na Beer salesman Veletiio Sidlakan Mascarias, who stayed at the warehouse.

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News: Opposition decries revenue share

Monday, December 31st, 2007

CITY Hall is now scraping out whatever is left of its savings just to come out with some P30 million to pay off UKC Builders, Inc. as “sharing of revenue” for the Cogon and Carmen public markets, which are supposedly covered by Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts.

News: Price changes minimal, DTI says

Monday, December 31st, 2007

THERE have been no drastic or at least minimal changes regarding the price of basic commodities for 2007.

News: Opposition, lawyers howl on UKC P30-M share

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

OPPOSITION and other lawyers affirmed on Friday that the two ordinances allocating P30 million “revenue share” for UKC Builders, Inc. covering 2007 for the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract is “plainly illegal.”

News: Opposition, lawyers howl on UKC P30-M share

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

OPPOSITION and other lawyers affirmed on Friday that the two ordinances allocating P30 million “revenue share” for UKC Builders, Inc. covering 2007 for the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract is “plainly illegal.”

News: 57 fires hit Oro in 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

THE regional office of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) responded to a total of 57 fire outbreaks this year compared to 51 last year or an increase of 35.71 percent.

News: 57 fires hit Oro in 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

THE regional office of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) responded to a total of 57 fire outbreaks this year compared to 51 last year or an increase of 35.71 percent.