Barricade or peaceful protest? Whatever you call it, the blocking of Mandaue City Hall with people and heavy equipment disrupted Friday’s regular business there. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Cuizon)
CEBU CITY -- Two Metro Cebu mayors decided Friday to fight an Ombudsman order preventively suspending them, without pay, for six months while they answer charges provoked by the purchase of expensive street lamps.
But while it was almost business as usual in Lapu-Lapu City, an irate crowd effectively blocked the way to the mayor's office in Mandaue, displaying placards that attacked the "vigilante justice" dispensed by the anti-graft office.
MANILA -- The lawyer of incarcerated Bayan Muna party-list Representative Satur Ocampo on Friday insisted that the multiple murder charges against the lawmaker before the Leyte court is already covered by the rebellion case filed at the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC).
ANGELES CITY --- Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) chairman Nestor Mangio, his wife, and officials of the San Fernando register of deeds are facing administrative and criminal charges for tax evasion involving at least P68 million.
BUKIDNON -- Historical political battles are in the offing in this province with clans clashing and a controversial ex-Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner making a bid for Congress.
