The House Committee on Energy on Monday, May 24 approved a bill that would give the Joint Congressional Energy Commission (JCEC) a permanent status, removing in the process its expiration as a body exercising oversight functions on the energy sector. In a committee hearing alternately presided over...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has clarified issues on the payout for bus operators and drivers participating in the government's service contracting program. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In a statement, the LTFRB said it has already distributed a total of...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has already distributed a total of P322.4 million in payouts to public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers under the government’s service contracting program. Jeepney driver Ricardo Legaspi now lives in his jeepney with his family after...
The Mega Manila Consortium Corporation (MMCC) has belied claims that its bus firms on the EDSA Carousel Route participating in the government's free ride program have limited their operations over issues of non-payment. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "Our bus units that are operating to provide free...
Land Transporation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Chairman Martin B. Delgra III has told bus operators to immediately pay their conductors who have not yet received their salaries. (Jansen Romero/ File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The LTFRB chief made the call following reports that several...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur P. Tugade said the agency will distribute additional cash incentives to drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs) under the government's service contracting program. (Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN) Tugade said in an interview on Wednesday, May...
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has ordered Manila Water Company Inc. and Maynilad Water Services Inc. to suspend anew their respective service disconnection activities. In an advisory, MWSS Regulatory Office (RO)...
Despite the recent decision of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to temporarily halt the shipment of local sugar output to the United States, Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri still proceeded to tell the agency to make sure the country will have enough supply of the sweetener for this year....
A Board Member of Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) backed the call of some local industry players to scrap the export allocation of the country’s sugar production for the current crop year to the United States. This, as groups like Confederation of Sugar Producers Associations, Inc. (CONFED)...
The government has ordered Maynilad Water Services, Inc. and Manila Water Company, Inc. to suspend all service disconnection activities this week in Metro Manila and nearby areas. This is in light of the government declaration of an Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the NCR Plus bubble,...
The water rates of Manila Water Company Inc. will slightly increase in the second quarter of the year, while customers of Maynilad Water Services Inc. will enjoy a small rollback in rates. In a virtual briefing on Thursday, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Chief Regulator Patrick...
Electricity consumers will be greeted with a “Happy New Year rate hike” as they will need to pay more as subsidy to renewable energy (RE) projects via the feed-in-tariff allowance (FIT-All) line item in the electric bills that had been jacked up to P0.0983 per kilowatt hour (kwh), almost double...
