The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has issued a Show Cause Order (SCO) against the registered owner of a sports utility vehicle (SUV) whose driver engaged in a violent confrontation with a bicycle rider in Marikina City. LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II said the SCO is part of the ongoing...
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook, Rep. Castro's office) The Vice President isn't a mere "spare tire" for the presidency. Davao de Oro 1st district Rep, Maria Carmen Zamora made a case for...
The combined P650-million confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and Department of Education (DepEd)--both under Vice President Sara Duterte--will be among those to be realigned to intelligence and security agencies tasked to address "escalating threats in...
Sen. Grace Poe said she believes that the next person to lead the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) should have an immense political will to overhaul the agency. She issued the statement on Wednesday, Sept. 27 after the courtesy resignation of OTS Administrator Undersecretary Ma. O Aplasca...
The Land Transportation Office-National Capital Region (LTO-NCR) has opened a Driver's License Renewal Office (DLRO) at the Ayala South Park Mall in Muntinlupa City, the 30 th license renewal office in Metro Manila. LTO-NCR director Roque I. Verzosa III said the move is to bring the agency’s...
A Senate panel issued a subpoena compelling Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) General Manager Mel Robles, Chairman Junie Cua, and its other officials for repeated absences in the upper chamber's inquiry into the integrity and trustworthiness of lotto games. Since the beginning of the...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The Office of the Vice President (OVP) spent its confidential funds worth P125 million in 19 days--not 11 as previously discussed in the budget plenary debates in the House of Representatives. OVP budget sponsor, Davao...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has teamed up with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Open Ownership (OO) for the potential use of beneficial ownership data in curbing corruption in the government procurement process. The SEC and UNODC recently organized a focus...
Vice President Sara Duterte (rightmost, bottom row, sitting) listens to Davao de Oro 1st district Rep, Maria Carmen Zamora's (standing) defense of the OVP budget for 2024. (Screenshot from YouTube live) The Office of the Vice President (OVP) will "submit to the...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is eyeing the production of 42,000 plates per day as part of the measures to address the 13 million backlog in license plates for motor vehicles and motorcycles. LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II said around 11 machines will be in full operation starting next month,...
Davao del Norte 1st district Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte's sought confidential funds are better off given to "more appropriate" agencies like National Security Council (NSC)....
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman (Facebook) Liberal Party (LP) President Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman cited four reasons why he thinks the Department of Budget and Management's (DBM) "transfer or release" of...
