For 2008, the President expects her Cabinet to work harder to implement the different development programs outlined in various provinces. She intends to have a better government team that will improve governance and delivery of public service in the coming year.

(Isang bukas na liham para sa anak ng sundalo upang maipaliwanag ang mga bagay-bagay kung bakit ang mga amang sundalo ay kadalasang wala sa pamilya sa mahahalagang okasyon)
Para sa iyo,

By MASSIMO D’ALEMA

ROME — Next year the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. The intense discussions preceding the adoption of the 1948 declaration exposed the divide between nations that favored the death penalty and those that opposed it.

By Betty Elago

Christmas is truly a busy season, and all the households in this universe are all busy preparing on how to make Christmas Day memorable to each and every one in the family, especially their darling tots who are looking forward to get gifts from Santa Claus.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is calling on local chief executives nationwide to help raise public awareness over the dangers of using polyvinyl chloride pipe, locally known as “boga,” in the ongoing holiday festivities, as several cases of injuries have been attributed to the use of this device in last year’s revelry. 

By MIGUEL ANGEL GUTIERREZ

MEXICO CITY — Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought.

Despite the chilly forecasts of a downturn in the global economy next year, government’s economic planners remain confident that the country’s economy would be able to ride out the storm by cashing in on the booming tourism and real estate sectors, among others.

by Dan Toribio Jr.

A 10-year-old boy died after he accidentally touched a live wire while playing with his two cousins along the shore in Sinunuc at noon last Thursday.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III urged the public yesterdat to find safer means of celebrating the coming year other than exploding firecrackers that have already injured 87 individuals, mostly young people, four days before New Year’s Day.

The Philippine National Red Cross, Zamboanga City Chapter will conduct the first Emergency Medical Technician-B course on January 7 to March 7, 2008.

by Mon Follosco

“We feel proud of being Zamboangueños that the honorees brought honor and fame to our city,”

Mayor Celso Lobregat Thursday night hailed Zamboangueño athletes who brought honor and fame to Zamboanga during the year, as he thanked them for helping in the effort to “take Zamboanga to greater heights of fulfillment”.

Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday joined the San Isidro Labrador Parish in its gift-giving activity with the end in view of spreading Christmas cheers to indigent children from Talon-talon and the neighboring barangays.

by Jimmy Villaflores

The City Council yesterday approved in principle a proposed ordinance granting franchise to operate and maintain a cockpit to at least 10 applicants who had submitted their application to the Office of the City Mayor.

by Jemuel Mojica

The City Council yesterday passed a resolution approving the request of several barangays for authority to disburse funds from their own savings for the granting of extra cash gifts to the members of the Sangguniang Barangay.