CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A group of tricycle drivers and operators in this city has shunned digital payments because it is not applicable to their public utility vehicle. Paul Cempron, chairman of the Federation of Motorela Drivers and Operators in Cagayan de Oro, said the enactment of proposed...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) Implementing electronic licenses is the "long-term solution" to the plastic license card woes hounding the Land Transportation Office (LTO). AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee had this to say even as the...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Three Public Utility Vehicle drivers tested positive for illegal drugs during the conduct of surprise drug tests in line with "Oplan: Balik Eskwela" in several bus terminals here on September 1. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Region 2 Interdiction...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is preparing its so-called "plan B" even as it is waiting for the decision of a Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in connection with the temporary restraining order (TRO) it imposed on the delivery of...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Rep. Lee's office) A neophyte congressman is prodding the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to give a one-year extension to the validity of drivers' licenses affected by the temporary restraining order (TRO) halting the agency...
BACOLOD CITY – A tricycle driver was gunned down near a shopping mall on Rizal St., Barangay 12 here on Tuesday, July 18. The victim was identified as Joenel Pahilanga, 29, of Kabugwason, Barangay Mansilingan, this city. Police Major Elmer Bonilla, head of Police Station 1, said the victim...
BACOLOD CITY – Two truck drivers who yielded 15 grams of shabu worth P120,000 were arrested during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Robles, La Castellana, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, June 28. TWO truck drivers were arrested by police in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Robles, La...
Antipolo City 2nd district Rep. Romeo Acop (Screenshot from Zoom meeting) A total of 172 out of the Land Transportation Office's (LTO) 350 branches no longer have plastic cards for driver’s licenses, House of Representatives members learned. The status of the plastic cards was bared by LTO Chief...
Two suspects who attacked a jeepney driver were arrested by the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Novaliches Police Station (PS 4) at the Bigte-Novaliches terminal in Barangay Nova Proper, Novaliches, Quezon City on Friday, May 5. QCPD PS 4 Station Commander Lt. Col. Jerry Castillo identified the...
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Friday, May 5, sought a Senate investigation into what he considers as "anti-poor" process of obtaining driver’s licenses in the Philippines, saying there is a need to streamline and make the process accessible to the marginalized sector. Tulfo filed Senate Resolution (SR)...
House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto (Facebook) House Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto says the lack of "smarts"--and not funds--is the real root cause of the Land Transportation Office's (LTO) plastic driver’s license card woes. “Not all...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Rep. Lee's office) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee has thumbed down the Land Transportation Office's (LTO) plan to print out temporary driver's licenses on paper amid the shortage of plastic cards. "The official receipt should be enough. Huwag na natin...
