Great innovations in governance take a lot of time to create: from idea to gestation and on to adoption and implementation. Which is just as well, because careful vetting and thorough study on the part of the proponents of an innovative idea, especially one that will affect the lives of millions of...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has released the common traffic violations in the National Capital Region which will be covered by the single-ticketing system that is expected to be implemented in April this year. Currently, each of the 17 local government units (LGUs) in Metro...
BACOLOD CITY – Two teenage cousins died after their motorcycle crashed into a parked truck loaded with sugarcane pulp in Hacienda Baga-as, Barangay Efigenio, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, Jan. 29. Police identified the victims as Nataniel Conde, 18, and Alvin Bendoy, 19, residents of...
THIS pickup truck was destroyed after it was hit by a wayward trailer truck in Nueva Vizcaya on Tuesday, Jan. 31. (Photo via Liezle Inigo) CAMP Saturnino Dumlao, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya – A couple died after bags of fertilizer from a trailer truck buried them alive in Purok 2, Bone South,...
Starting next week, enforcers of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country will no longer issue a hard copy of traffic violation tickets as part of the digital shift of the agency. Instead, LTO chief Jose Arturo “Jay Art” Tugade said its officers will be using a Law Enforcement...
LEGAZPI CITY, Albay -- Six persons were killed while 13 others were injured when a passenger jeepney collided with a wing van in Barangay San Rafael, Castilla town in Sorsogon province on Friday afternoon, Jan. 27. Police identified the victims as Karen Jamisola, 45, a resident of Sorsogon City;...
SUAL, Pangasinan – At least 10 persons were injured in an accident involving five vehicles in Barangay Poblacion here on Friday afternoon, Jan. 27. A report from the office of Col. Jeff Fanged, Pangasinan police chief, stated that involved vehicles were a Chevrolet Trailblazer with license...
URDANETA CITY, Pangasinan – A 17-year-old Grade 11 student died after he was accidentally struck by a car while crossing the bypass road in Barangay Nancayasan here on Sunday, Jan. 22. Police identified the victim as Ernest Jules Draculan, a resident of Zone 3, Barangay Cayambanan, this...
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has conducted a maintenance activity at its air traffic management center which affected flight operations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for a few hours. In its advisory, the CAAP said normal operations immediately returned...
Metro Manila mayors and traffic management officials in the metropolis have approved the the final draft of the Metro Manila Traffic Code for the proposed single ticketing system in the National Capital Region (NCR) in a meeting held on Thursday, Jan. 19. The proposed single ticketing system is...
Senator Grace Poe on Sunday, January 15, urged Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) director general Manuel Antonio Tamayo to inhibit from the ongoing investigation on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) air traffic fiasco. Poe said doing so would ensure an impartial...
Senator Francis ‘Tol’ N. Tolentino has urged the leadership of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to take advantage of a specific treaty that would help modernize the country’s existing air traffic control system. Tolentino was referring to the 1944 Chicago Convention on...
