CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Jeepney operators in this city have no choice but to surrender their franchises and be consolidated into a cooperative or corporation due to lack of time as the government is not extending the deadline for franchise consolidation on December 31. Joel Gabatan, president of...
An estimated 2,000 jeepney operators and drivers in Pasig City will join the transport strike to be staged by the Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (PISTON) on Dec. 14 to 15 in protest of the Dec. 31 deadline for the public utility vehicle (PUV) consolidation given to...
A total of 135,761 units of jeepneys, buses and other public utility vehicles (PUV) have so far consolidated into either a corporation or a cooperative as part of the requirements for the PUV Modernization Program. The figure represents around 61 percent of the total number of units in the...
Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday, December 12 renewed her call for the government to review the public utility vehicle modernization program (PUVMP) noting that it lacks safety nets for drivers and operators who will bear the brunt of the December 31 consolidation deadline. Poe,...
President Marcos announced that the deadline for the consolidation of public utility vehicles (PUV) operators will not be extended. Marcos said the government has decided not to extend the deadline of consolidation as 70 percent of all operators in the country have complied with the requirements to...
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...
