Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Thursday, July 7 expressed his belief it is high-time that the government should also prioritize coming up with a cash subsidy scheme for low to medium income class workers who are also reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, series of oil price...
Senator Grace Poe has refiled her bill seeking to provide for the automatic suspension of excise tax on gasoline and diesel. The suspension will take effect when the average Dubai crude oil price based on the Mean of Platts Singapore (MOPs) exceeds $80 per barrel over a three-month period. Earlier,...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo M. Lacson has sought a conditional suspension of the excise tax on fuel, and the scrapping of several lines of exemption in the Value-Added Tax (VAT). Lacson said this two-pronged formula could give Filipinos some badly needed breathing room from the effects of prohibitive...
Senator Imee Marcos on Tuesday, June 21, asked the Department of Energy (DOE) for its proposal to help sectors badly affected by the increasing fuel prices. Senator Imee Marcos (Senate of the Philippines) Marcos, chairwoman of the Senate economic affairs committee, said the proposal for nuclear...
Senator-elect Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito said he is contemplating biking his way to work in the Senate once the 19th Congress opens its regular sessions. Ejercito said biking is now his way of life and is actually thinking of biking to work to avoid the stress of traffic and at the same time...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday said he would push for additional cash subsidies for public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers as local pump prices of oil is expected to continue rising as the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on. With the global disruption on oil supply and distribution,...
Senator Imee Marcos has said it is high time for the Philippines to talk to its Asian neighbors to help with the county’s oil supply and also look at sustainable and renewable sources of energy. Marcos, chairwoman of the Senate economic affairs committee, issued this statement during a brief...
BACOLOD CITY – Some jeepney drivers here took time off the streets as they joined the driver’s holiday amid the series of bigtime oil price hikes in the country. Diego Malacad, secretary general of the United Negros Drivers and Operators Center (Undoc), said the activity aimed to call on the...
Senator-elect Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Wednesday urged the government to improve the country’s cycling lanes as increasing gas prices are expected to propel more workers to use bicycles and scooters as alternative modes of transportation. But Ejercito said the national government should...
Amid the continuous oil price hikes that leave jeepney drivers almost without income, Malacañang on Monday, June 6, pleaded with the drivers ​not to push with their planned operations stoppage expected this week. Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement the government...
Local fishers were left with no choice but to look for alternative jobs apart from fishing amid the continuous fuel cost hike in the Philippines. A fisherman in Cavite (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) National Chairperson Fernando...
Senator Joel Villanueva has called as "oppressive" the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) spending ban on government offices as members of various industries are in need of subsidies due to increasing oil price hike. Villanueva on Tuesday urged the poll body to suspend its moratorium on the Land...
