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MMDA TO RELOCATE BUS TERMINALS ALONG EDSA BY JUNE – LIM

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is eyeing to remove all bus terminals along Edsa by June. The Metro Manila Council (MMC), MMDA’s policy-making body, has approved the resolution prohibiting the issuance of business permits to all public utility bus terminals and operators and other public utility vehicles along Edsa during its meeting at the […]

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PPA LAND DONATION TO HELP RESIDENTS DISPLACED BY MANILA BAY CLEAN UP – VILLAR

Senator Cynthia Villar commended the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) for donating 5 hectares of land in Tondo, Manila, as relocation site for 2,400 families residing in Parola and Isla Puting Bato in Tondo. Villar, chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, has been asking PPA “to do something about the burgeoning number of […]

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MANILA BAY INFORMAL SETTLERS TO BE RELOCATED – CIMATU

Government plans to start relocating informal settlers on the shores of Manila Bay as early as Phase 1 of the project to rehabilitate the polluted bay. According to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu, the plan aims to significantly curb pollution in Manila Bay as soon as possible and open up […]