Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano gave discounts on fuel products as her birthday treat to jeepney and tricycle drivers in the city on Saturday, Aug. 20. Rubiano who celebrated her birthday on August 16 is continuing to give birthday treats to different sectors as a “mother” of the city. She...
TACLOBAN CITY – Senators Christopher Bong Go and Robinhood Padilla led the distribution of P3,000 financial aid to beneficiaries on Thursday, August 11 at Combado Gymnasium in Maasim City. At least 300 drivers initially received assistance under the Department of Social Welfare and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The city government has intensified its campaign against overcharging and abusive tricycle drivers, a perennial problem which has affected the tourism industry here. FIRE tricycles were apprehended by the Zamboanga City government in line with their drive to stop overcharging and...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada is seeking to pass a measure that would give bus drivers a minimum wage and fixed working hours, on top of government benefits. Under Senate Bill (SB) No. 48, bus operators must twice a month pay their drivers and conductors a salary that is not less than the minimum wage...
A total of 1,434 tricycle drivers and operators in Quezon City have received fleet cards with P1,000 fuel subsidy from the local government from July 7 to Aug. 3. Benjamin Ibon III, Task Force head for Transport and Traffic Management-Tricycle Regulatory Division chief, told Manila Bulletin on...
The Quezon City government on Wednesday, July 13, distributed fleet cards with P1,000 fuel subsidy to 274 tricycle drivers from the city’s second district. The beneficiaries who received the fuel subsidy cards on Wednesday were members of the Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association (TODA)...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is looking to expand the government's fuel subsidy to tricycle drivers. A tricycle association in Muntinlupa is requesting a P1 increase in fare (Photo from the Muntinlupa police's Facebook page) Marcos said this was among the matters they discussed during...
From left: Jackree Luz, Owner of Alert Driving Academy; Julia Jatico, Managing Director of Think Wise Medical Services; Arch. Renee Bacani, VP of Ortigas Malls, Estancia Mall in Pasig City; Asec. Edgar Galvante, LTO ASEC; Usec. Mark Steven Pastor, DOTr USEC; Frank Alido, President of DLRO; Alex Uy,...
A total of 617,806 qualified recipients will receive fuel cash subsidies under the "Pantawid Pasada Program for Tricycle Drivers” to ease their financial woes amid the rising cost of petroleum products since late last year, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said on...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, June 27 called on the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) anew to fast track the distribution of fuel subsidies to targeted beneficiaries of the “Pantawid Pasada” program. Gatchalian made the call as he vows to pursue the provision...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday, June 22 urged the government to consider increasing its cash aid for public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers affected by the rising cost of fuel to P3,000. Gatchalian made the call as he deemed it much better than suspending the excise tax on fuel, which he...
89078 BAGUIO CITY – A barangay here provided free gasoline to jeepney drivers burdened by increasing oil prices. Barangay AZCKO (Abanao, Zandueta, Chugum, Kayang, and Otek), which has the largest passenger jeepney terminal here, gave 1.5 liters of diesel to 43 jeepney drivers from various jeepney...
