When the national government announced the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) in 2019, the group of jeepney transport leader Rommel Odevilas immediately signed up in the hope that it would fulfill the promise of a better life for the operators and drivers of their association...
A South Korean shipbuilding company has started the manufacture of two missile corvettes that were procured by the government for the Philippine Navy as part of the modernization program for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Vice Admiral Toribio Adaci Jr., together with HD HHI Senior...
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has vowed to look into the concerns of transport groups that struggling to comply with the government’s proposed modernization program. Cayetano, during a press conference on November 25 in Baguio City, said he is ready to look into the plight of the...
On the fourth day of the nationwide transport strike, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) stressed that the consolidation of jeepney drivers and operators into either a cooperative or corporation is a non-negotiable part of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). The deadline...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) would not give in to the demand of a protesting transport group to cancel the consolidation process of drivers and operators of traditional jeepneys into a corporation or cooperative as part of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization...
Transport group Manibela will join in the last day of the nationwide three-day strike of PISTON on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and will extend it further until Friday this week to protest what it describes as lies being propagated by the government transport agencies on the Public Utility Vehicle...
Progressive youth group Anakbayan on Monday, Nov. 20, echoed dissents to contradict the "phaseout" of the Public Utility Vehicles (PUVs) as it will "only worsen the current economic crisis." Photo credit to Anakbayan The group joined the protestants including jeepney drivers and operators to...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is expecting that 85 percent to 90 percent of public utility vehicles (PUVs) will be consolidated into either a corporation or a cooperative after the Dec. 31 deadline for consolidation, which is part of the PUV modernization program....
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Dutere said Monday, Nov. 20, that her agencies stand ready to help the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in ensuring the commuters, both workers and students, are not affected by the ongoing transport strike. In a joint press...
A major transport group is planning to hold a three-day strike starting Monday, Nov. 20, to protest the government’s deadline to consolidate drivers and operators of traditional jeepneys into either a corporation or a cooperative. The consolidation is part of the Public Utility Vehicle...
Drivers and operators of passenger jeepneys have until Dec. 31 this year to consolidate and create a cooperative or corporation for them to avail of the benefits of the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP), the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory...
Thirteen major transport groups in the country have requested the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to limit the operation of modern public utility vehicles (PUVs) in selected routes in major urban areas in the country. In a letter addressed to DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista, the group also...
