There will be no transportation crisis in Metro Manila amid the implementation of the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) as 80 percent of operators and drivers were able to meet the April 30 deadline for consolidation, Department of Transportation Secretary Jaime J. Bautista said....
Senator Grace Poe said on Friday, May 17 that concerned agencies must provide alternative livelihood to thousands of jeepney drivers who are now jobless amid the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) rollout. "The trainings and employment opportunities being touted should be...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has committed to deploy what it described as sufficient number of its personnel amid the start of the crackdown on public utility vehicles (PUVs) that failed to consolidate into a corporation or cooperative as part of he modernization program. The...
Starting Thursday, May 16, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will start running after operators and drivers of passenger jeepneys and other public utility vehicles (PUVs) who failed to comply with the government’s regulation of consolidating into cooperative or...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, May 2 urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to work with Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to procure modern private utility vehicles (PUVs). These PUVs, the senator said, can be leased to...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is expecting at least 80 percent of passenger jeepneys nationwide to have complied after the April 30 deadline for their operators to consolidate into either a cooperative or a corporation. LTFRB chairperson Teofilo Guadiz III said...
For Sen. Grace Poe, the continued conduct of transport strikes is an indication of a still unsettled issue in the transport sector. Activist groups together with jeepney drivers post placards during the first day of transport strike against the government's public utility vehicle (PUV)...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro is calling on the Supreme Court (SC) to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program...
Two Filipinas and their "fake" Chinese husbands were intercepted at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) before they could board their flight to Xiamen, China last April 23, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Thursday, April 25. The BI said the two women, whose names were withheld,...
Two South Korean fugitives wanted in their country for fraud have been arrested in Angeles City in Pampanga, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Thursday, April 25. Commissioner Norman Tansingco identified them as Choi Suang Hwan and Kang Seunghoon who were arrested last April 24 during separate...
Sen. Robinhood Padilla vowed to make noise in pushing for the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), especially the Philippine Navy, so they can better defend our territory. Padilla mentioned this after visiting Senate employees undergoing the Basic Citizen Military Course...
Senator Imee Marcos (Senate PRIB) Senator Imee Marcos is urging the government to find “concrete” solutions to the issues currently hounding the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). “Alam naman natin malawakang problema ito… yung mga...
