Supporters of Mandaue Mayor Thadeo Ouano are asked by megaphone to leave City Hall and keep the entrances to the building free. The suspension order on Mayor Ouano may finally be served, DILG having been given by the ombudsman until Wednesday to enforce it. (Sun.Star Cebu/Allan Cuizon)
CEBU CITY -- Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza remain suspended from holding office.
In separate resolutions, the Court of Appeals denied their petitions for temporary restraining order to stop the enforcement of the preventive suspension order the anti-graft office issued against them and 17 other public officials.
MANILA -- Military and police operatives have exhumed in Leyte at least 13 skeletal remains of civilians who were allegedly executed by the communist New People's Army (NPA) in the 1980s on suspicions that they were deep penetration agents of the government.
BUUG, Zamboanga del Sur -- Dimataling Town Mayor Haniel Baya ordered a thorough investigation into the attack on his home that killed his worker Sunday evening.
CANDABA -- In response to the scarcity of potable water in Central Luzon and Northern Manila, a memorandum of agreement (MOA) has been forged for the development of the Candaba swamp as a source of potable water and water irrigation.