The Bureau of Fire Protection here recorded 486 fire incidents last year.
The city government here is mulling to extend a financial aid for another province in the typhoon-struck Visayas.
President Rodrigo Duterte leads the commemoration of the 120th anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal's martyrdom at the Rizal National Monument in Manila on Friday, Dec. 30,2016. (REY BANIQUET/ Presidential Photo)
The Philippine National Police in the region will conduct strict monitoring of activities to ensure that no one will indiscriminately fire guns during the New year.
Luis Jalandoni, National Democratic Front senior adviser, shakes hands with a guerrilla fighter of the New Peoples' Army the morning after the 48th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines in Barangay Lumiad, Paquibato district on Tuesday, Dec. 27 . (Jaja Necosia/Breakaway Media)