The Philippine National Police (PNP) will deploy policemen in areas where drivers and operators of a transport group will converge during a transport strike on Monday, Oct. 16. PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo also urged the members of transport group Manibela to police their own ranks in order...
Manila 6th district Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. (Facebook) Manila 6th District Rep. Bienvenido Abante Jr. wants to get to the bottom of the allegations of corruption at the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), which has led to the...
Senators on Thursday, October 12 pressed for a Senate probe on the recantation of a whistleblower on corruption allegations against officials of the Land Transportation, Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). This, after Jeffrey Tumbado, former senior executive assistant at LTFRB,...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime Bautista is eyeing the filing of charges against the people, whom he said, were maligning him in connection with the alleged corruption related to franchise approval of modern jeepneys at the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime Bautista has designated lawyer Mercy Paras Leynes as the officer-in-charge of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) amid the corruption allegations against the top official of the agency. In an order dated Oct. 10,...
Sen. Grace Poe on Tuesday, Oct. 10 urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to suspend the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP) in light of the alleged corruption in the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). Poe who heads the Senate Public Services Committee said...
Starting Sunday, Oct. 8, the minimum fare for all passenger jeepneys across the country will increase by P1 following the approval of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) amid the series of oil price hikes in the past weeks. LTFRB chairperson Teofilo Guadiz III...
A total of 128,912 operators of public utility vehicles (PUVs) have been included in the list of the beneficiaries of the fuel subsidy through a cash assistance from the national government amid the continuous increase in the prices of petroleum products in the past weeks, the Land Transportation...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has granted the petition of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to exempt the distribution of fuel subsidy from the spending ban for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. The spending ban was the reason why the LTFRB...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will discuss all the petitions for fare increase on Sept. 26, and transport groups are asking that a provisional P1 fare increase be immediately implemented after the hearing. LTFRB chairman Teofilo Guadiz III said there are two...
Beneficiaries of the government’s fuel subsidy program for the transport sector will have to wait for a little more time before they would receive the cash assistance, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulator Board (LTFRB) said on Wednesday, Sept. 13. LTFRB Executive Director Robert Peig...
Starting Wednesday, Sept. 13, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will be distributing the fuel subsidy to operators of public utility vehicles (PUVs) after the agency received the fund from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). LTFRB chairperson Teofilo Guadiz...
