Enviro cops to net Metro litterbugs

THE Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) yesterday said that it will start apprehending litterbugs starting September 16.

1,300 CESOs needed to fill in gov’t vacant posts

HERE’S good news to Career Executive Officers (CESO) and officials readying themselves to fill in executive positions in the government service.

Armed Forces announces promotion of generals

By Ronnie Santos

THE military leadership has recommended the promotion of Army chief Maj. Gen. Arturo Ortiz, the most senior officer conferred with the highest military decoration Medal of Valor, to the next higher rank of major general.

Cayetano assures elderly of intact benefits

SEN. Pia Cayetano yesterday assured the country’s six million senior citizens that all benefits due them under the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010 (ESCA) are intact amid reports that their supposed “VAT exemption” for electricity and water consumption will be “taken back” by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) through a new revenue regulation it issued on Monday.

RP nights will be longer this September

THE Space Sciences and Astronomy Section (SSAS) of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) under the supervision of Officer-in-Charge Graciano P. Yumul Jr. has come out with the Astronomical Diary for September, 2010.