CEBU CITY – A jeepney driver was arrested as a prime suspect in the killing of a woman whose body was found dumped at the South Road Properties (SRP) here on Tuesday, Nov. 19. GODOFREDO Brufal (face covered with cloth) sits across the relatives of a woman whom he admitted choking to...
BATANGAS CITY – Two barangay tanods or watchmen were killed and six others were injured after a jeepney crashed into them in Barangay Tulo, this city, on Friday afternoon, Nov. 1. Police identified the fatalities as Jocelyn Claro Macatangay, 49, and Arnold Ebora Calaluan, 49, watchmen of...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – A driver was electrocuted to death after the public utility jeepney he was driving hit a live wire of the Albay Electric Cooperative at noon here on Wednesday, Oct. 23. THE body of a jeepney driver lies on the ground after he was electrocuted and his vehicle caught fire...
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Ten individuals were injured in a jeepney crash in Barangay Manga, Peñablanca, Cagayan on Saturday, September 7. Police said the driver lost control of the vehicle while negotiating an uphill portion of the road and plunged into a deep ravine. Ten passengers,...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Twenty-four persons, including a two-month-old baby, were injured in a collision between a passenger jeepney and sports utility vehicle (SUV) here on Sunday afternoon, August 11. Police Capt. Ruff Manganip, spokesperson of the Kalinga police provincial office, said the...
It looks like it is the end of the road for the jeepney, the so-called “king of the road,” after President Marcos said the Public Transportation Modernization Program (PTMP), formerly the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), will continue. The PUVMP is a government...
CEBU CITY – Packs of suspected shabu worth P6.8 million were seized from a public utility jeepney (PUJ) driver in a buy-bust operation here at dawn on Monday, July 1. SUSPECTED shabu worth P6.8 million was seized from a public utility jeepney driver in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City at dawn on...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has committed to deploy what it described as sufficient number of its personnel amid the start of the crackdown on public utility vehicles (PUVs) that failed to consolidate into a corporation or cooperative as part of he modernization program. The...
Starting Thursday, May 16, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will start running after operators and drivers of passenger jeepneys and other public utility vehicles (PUVs) who failed to comply with the government’s regulation of consolidating into cooperative or...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) assured commuters that there is no basis to implement a fare hike as the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Programs (PUVMP) concluded the first phase of its implementation, which is the consolidation of operators...
ENRILE, Cagayan – One person has died among the 43 individuals who were injured after a passenger jeepney plunged into a drainage canal in Barangay Roma Norte here on Sunday afternoon, April 28. MAP of Cagayan with the town of Enrile highlighted. Enrile Mayor Miguel B. Decena Jr. said...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is expecting at least 80 percent of passenger jeepneys nationwide to have complied after the April 30 deadline for their operators to consolidate into either a cooperative or a corporation. LTFRB chairperson Teofilo Guadiz III said...
