THE YEAR just past in headlines:
First, a morale booster coming to us in the second week of January – MOKA loser loses again: Dismissal of libel vs. Punto upheld. Upbeat.
The Capitol.
Gov distributes 21 dump trucks to Pampanga mayors
Don Andres Luciano District Hospital inaugurated in Magalang.
Ricardo Rodriguez District Hospital inaugurated in Bacolor.
Domingo Flores District Hospital inaugurated in Macabebe.
P25-M expansion project at provincial hospital opens.
Gov wants year-round desilting operations.
Nabuclod: Pampanga’s paradise in the sky.
Gov starts drive to help raise P44-M blood money.
Capitol workers get P40K bonus.
Jewels in the sand – P637-million quarry fees collected in just 30 months.
Business
SM Prime Holdings opens SM City Olongapo
SM Prime Holdings opens SM City San Fernando Downtown.
Ayala’s Harbour Point opens in Subic Freeport.
Hausland takes premium spot in housing development.
Hanjin dlivers $60-M bulk carrier
Clark International Airport
Cebu Pacific Air opens Philippine Academy for Aviation Training at Clark.
Philippines AirAsia sets hub at Clark, starts flights to Davao, Puerto Princesa, Kalibo, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Taipei.
New flights highlight Luciano inefficiency.
Groups ask PNoy to oust Luciano.
PAL sabotaging Clark.
Clark BI officers hit for alleged abuses.
CIA posts 63% growth in 8 months
Clark gets 5 millionth passenger in 9 years.
Clark airport toilets stink.
International flights seek refuge at Clark.
Clark seen as solution to NAIA flight delays.
MVP sees Clark as PHL’s new international airport.
No plans for Clark as new int’l gateway – Aquino.
PNoy misinformed on Clark Airport – PGKM.
Clark Freeport
Clark golf course project threatens water supply.
Gov’t protects destroyers of the environment – ADCL, Killing of mountain, trees in Clark continues.
CDC execs face graft case over Donggwang.
PGKM: No to ex-military, politicians at CDC.
Lawyer businessman to assume as CDC prexy.
Headliner, all by himself
Righteous Roxas shames Gov. Pineda.
Roxas ‘unfit’ to be President.
Roxas in overdrive to destroy Pampanga.
Roxas resign.
Roxas scored for dubbing Pampanga election hotspot
Peace and disorder
Cash smuggling in Las Vegas: Lapid’s wife case inspires revival of plunder raps.
City hall worker, lover shit dead in Angeles; suspect is columnist of local paper and ex-husband of victim.
Cops nab 3 women with P7.2M worth of marijuana.
Central Luzon crime rate plunges 40.88%
With slay of Dutchman in CSF, culture of impunity persists.
The Environment
AC officials object to cutting of trees for road-widening project.
Pampanga LGUs flout environmental laws; dumpsites continue to operate
Pineda wants garbage management privatized.
Tanggalin si Paje sa DENR.
Pampanga, Bulacan, Bataan, Zambales go under water
Politics
‘By the grace of God, by the sovereign will of the people Mabalacat is now a city.’
Boking to the people of Mabalacat: Stay with me, the best is yet to be.
Bacolor VM, ex-mayor expose 7,000 flying voters
Oca backs EDSA-Lazatin tandem for CSF in 2013
Oca dedicates Lingkod Bayan Award to all Fernadinos
Tarzan fears double-cross, decides to run for mayor.
EdPam: I am not the problem.
COA asked to investigate Lazatin.
COA asked to investigate Pamintuan.
Tarzan makes Outstanding Congressmen Hall of Fame.
EdPam lone Filipino, one of 5 Asians among 25 finalists in World City Mayor 2012 tilt.
JO employees slam political harassment.
City gov’t has P19.4M unliquidated cash advances.
City gov’t fails to give barangays’ RPT share.
Pure lies, city exec says.
AC gets award for good governance.
2012, what a year!
