The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod passed on second reading recently the Bacolod City Comprehensive Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) Ordinance and the city government will allocate P1 million for its implementation.

The ordinance authored by Councilor Carlos Jose Lopez, said the installation of CCTV cameras will aid in solving crimes and in monitoring effectively the flow of traffic in Bacolod City.

The CCTV’s will be installed in key strategic places in Bacolod City like main thoroughfares, major artery roads, in busy and congested areas like the public market and city government-run transport terminals, parks and other facilities, the ordinance said.

‘Gov’t losing revenues
from small-scale mining’

A big number of small-scale mining businesses being operated by unscrupulous persons including some rich Chinese entrepreneurs are depriving the government of billions of pesos in revenues, Rep. Winston Castelo (2nd District, Quezon City) said in a press release from Congress.

Castelo filed House Resolution 2326, urging the House Committee on Natural Resources to determine the number of small-scale mining operations throughout the country.

He urged the House body to invite the officials of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and submit a comprehensive report on the existence of small-scale mining operations in the country, the press release said.

Financial task force
upgrades PHL status

MANILA – The Anti-Money Laundering Council reported that the Financial Action Task Force responded positively to the initiatives of the Philippine government to enhance its transparency and accountability mechanisms in financial transactions.

Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte issued the statement following reports on the non-inclusion of the Philippines in the FATF’s black list of non-cooperative countries.

In his letter to President Benigno Aquino III, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco, Jr., in his capacity as Chairman of the AMLC, said that the FATF had recognized the reforms instituted by the Philippine government by upgrading the Philippines from the “dark grey list” to its “gray list.”

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