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FORMER Cabanatuan City administrators Roy Ortiz and Jose Roy Balagtas and Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) member Susana Dallo-Santos have failed to convince the Commission on Audit (COA) to lift the notices of disallowance (NDs) issued against the purchase of a P5.9 million generator set in 2008 and two motor vehicles worth P3.03 million in 2009 for irregularities.
THE Quezon City Prosecutors Office has ordered the release of a police officer and his wife who were suspected of stealing and selling seven government-issued bicycles worth over P223,000.
THE fire chief of Taytay, Rizal and three of his men were relieved pending the results of a probe on a fire truck allegedly used to fill a private swimming pool in the town recently.
THE Commission on Audit has affirmed five notices of disallowance (NDs) issued against the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) for spending P1.57 million out of a trust fund meant to improve the living conditions of the Mamanwa tribe of Claver, Surigao del Norte.
THREE Chinese wanted for a string of criminal cases in the Philippines and in China were arrested in Parañaque City by operatives from the Bureau of Immigration’s Fugitive Search Unit (BI FSU).
SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian yesterday called on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to adjust and come up with a more accurate assessment of the country’s poverty threshold so the Senate can come up with reasonable budget allocations to alleviate poverty in the country.
THE Roman Catholic Church will celebrate the Archdiocesan Youth Month next month, according to Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula.
THE Commission on Audit has ordered the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to pay a P232,500 claim filed by Pulse Asia Research, Inc. in 2022 for unsettled consultancy services fees based on a contract signed in 2020.