The 45-meter Meycauayan bridge in Meycauayan City and 64-meter Bigaa bridge in Balagtas, both in this province, are now open to motorists as the NLEX Corporation has completed the rehabilitation of these structures ahead of completion schedules. “We are happy to announce that works in Meycauayan and Bigaa bridges are now completed ahead of schedule to provide motorists with safer and smoother travel, despite some restrictions caused by the ongoing pandemic and the challenges brought by inclement weather conditions and doing works in live traffic,” said J. Luigi L. Bautista, president and general manager of NLEX Corporation, in a statement

President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act (RA) 11589 that will strengthen and modernize the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP). During the ceremonial signing of the BFP Modernization Act on Friday, Duterte said the new law would help boost the morale, efficiency, responsiveness, and professionalism of the bureau’s personnel as they continue to fulfill their mandate to save people’s lives. “The Bureau of Fire Protection has been instrumental in the success of our collective efforts to provide rescue and relief operations in areas hit by destructive fire and calamities,” Duterte said in a keynote speech delivered at Malacañang Palace’s

MANILA – The government is “not favoring” Chinese manufacturers in the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE), assured Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., the chief implementer of the National Task Force against Covid-19. “Noong panahon po na iyon, kahit na ang US, Canada at mga western countries, wala pong makunan ng face masks at PPEs–kumukuha po sila sa China. Hindi po natin fine-favor ang China kasi kung tutuusin po, wala po tayong capacity to produce PPEs at the time (By that time, even the United States, Canada and other western countries don’t have resources of face masks and PPEs–they were getting

DAVAO CITY – Undefeated Jayson “Smasher” Mama of General Santos City will no longer challenge International Boxing Federation (IBF) World flyweight champion Sunny “Showtime” Edwards of the United Kingdom after the title holder injured his ankle while training for the fight set on September 11 in Copper Box Arena, UK. “It hurts so much for me but it’s okay. I’ve trained really hard for this fight. I’ve sacrificed a lot. I and my team stayed in Dubai for 12 days so we could enter the UK just for Edwards to pull out of the fight for an ankle during fight

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) on Thursday declared a failure of bidding for the acquisition of additional optical mark reader (OMR) machines for the May 2022 elections. During the virtual opening of the bids, SBAC chairperson, lawyer Allen Francis Abaya announced the failure of bidding after the lone bidder SMMT-TIM Inc. did not submit its bid. “Considering that there are no bids submitted in today’s opening of bids, the SBAC hereby declares a failure of bidding,” he said. The service provider did not submit its bid, citing the higher cost of electronic

MANILA – Close to 98 percent or PHP10.9 billion out of a total of PHP11.2 billion fund for cash assistance to low-income beneficiaries affected by the recently enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) have already been distributed by local government units in Metro Manila, “Sa atin pong updates ng ayuda sa National Capital Region, makikita po natin na naka 97.92 percent na po tayo at 11 million beneficiaries po ang nakatanggap ng ayuda (In our updates on aid in the National Capital Region, we can see that we have reached 97.92 percent and 11 million beneficiaries have received aid),” Año told President