Hong Kong — Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) has revived plans to secure strategic investors for its tollways business in a bid to ease its significant debt burden. Chaye Cabal-Revilla, MPIC chief finance, risk, and sustainability officer, said the conglomerate is seeking to sell a 20...
Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), a unit of Manuel V. Pangilinan-led conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), is planning to use proceeds from its ₱20-billion bond offering to fund three tollway projects and refinance existing obligations. "This bond issuance aims to bolster...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Forty-eight houses were damaged by tornadoes spawned by super typhoon ‘’Nando’’ here on Monday. Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Arwin Vendiola said the tornadoes that started in the sea struck at 11 a.m. and affected Barangays Nagsayaoan,...
Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the Philippines’ leading infrastructure investments company, has appointed former Philippine Airlines President Gilbert Gabriel F. Santa Maria as the new President and CEO of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), effective Sept. 1, 2025. Santa...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines Archbishop Charles John Brown on Friday formally declared the historic and miraculous Our Lady of the Assumption Church here as minor basilica during a Mass celebrating the Feast of the Saint Mary the Assumption. With Brown were Nueva...
SANTA MARIA, Pangasinan – A police officer and two individuals were killed in a shooting incident in Sitio Imus, Barangay Samon, this town, before dawn on Sunday, May 11. The slain police officer was identified as Police Staff Sgt. Dennis Jali Oria, 33, assigned to the Tayug, Pangasinan Police...
Police said a junk shop owner was gunned down in Barangay Poblacion, Santa Maria, Davao Occidental on Monday night. Investigation said the 42-year-old victim was loading metal scrap onto his truck when motorcycle-riding gunmen appeared and shot him. Recovered from the area were six empty .45...
SANTA MARIA, Pangasinan -- A barangay chairman was shot dead in Barangay Paitan, this town, on Tuesday, April 1. Police identified the victim as Rolando Fernandez Albino, 60, chairman of Barangay Paitan. Investigation said the victim was driving a barangay patrol tricycle when a man wearing a...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has formed a five-member probe panel to investigate the collapse of the newly constructed Cabagan-Sta. Maria Bridge in Isabela, with findings set for submission on or before Apr. 25. Under Special Order No. 35 issued on Mar. 17, DPWH Secretary...
Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero is now pushing for a comprehensive review of all laws and policies against overloading by trucks and trailers across the country. Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero (MB File Photo) Escudero made the call for a review in light of the recent...
If some heads have to roll, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said it has to start with Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan, who, for him, is not taking the investigation of the collapsed P1.2 billion Cabagan-Santa Maria Bridge in Isabela seriously. Sen. Alan Peter...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) If ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo would have his way, he would have several people jailed for the collapse of the Cabagan-Santa Maria Bridge, including the bridge's designer and contractor....
