A student tie white ribbon as others display placards, calling to end bribery and corruption in the government Wednesday in Manila. The students called to end corruption amid the investigation on the national broadband network project and the alleged giving of cash-gift to congressmen as they called for a bigger budget on education. (AP photo)
MANILA –- Ayala Land Incorporated (ALI) said Wednesday methane gas was not likely the cause of last Friday’s deadly blast in Makati’s financial district that killed 11 people and wounded more than a hundred others.
The claim of ALI president and chief executive officer Jaime Ayala got a boost from a prominent University of the Philippines (UP) chemist who debunked the “gas leak” theory advanced by the Philippine National Police (PNP) as the likely cause of the massive blast.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Governor Eddie Panlilio criticized Wednesday what he termed as the inconsistency of the League of Provinces of Philippines (LPP), which owned up to being the source of the P500,000 cash gifts given to him and to Bulacan Governor Joselito Mendoza in Malacañang last October 11.
MANILA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will rely on results of a survey in granting pardon to former President Joseph Estrada who will be detained at the New Bilibid Prisons in two weeks if no pardon is given.
CEBU CITY -- The Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have identified 46 barangays as “areas of immediate concern” and in need of maximum security on the October 29 barangay and youth elections.
