CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, La Union – The Department of Public Works and Highways-La Union First District Engineering Office has completed two significant projects worth P58 million in this province. THE Baroro River flood mitigation project in Barangay Santa Rosa, San Juan, La Union. (Photo via...
ILOILO CITY – Antique Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao has urged the government to study her proposal for a new road to replace the killer curve in Hamtic, Antique following the December 5 bus accident in which 19 persons were killed and 10 injured. Cadiao said the permanent solution is to build a...
BACOLOD CITY – Popular reggae singer Kokoi Baldo died after he crashed and ran over by a 10-wheel truck loaded with sugarcane on the Circumferential Road in Purok Tultugan, Barangay Mandalagan, this city, before dawn on Friday, December 8. BALDO (FB) Police Major Armilyn Vargas, head of Police...
Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Vigor D. Mendoza II has ordered all regional directors and district office heads of the agency to intensify a regular road worthiness inspection of public utility buses in terminals following a fatal road accident in Antique that left at least 12 people dead....
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is pushing for more stringent requirements in issuing driver’s license and thorough road worthiness inspection of all motor vehicles as it sets its goal of reducing road accident deaths by 35 percent before the end of the term of President Marcos. DOTr...
ONE FOR THE ROAD The automotive industry lost a true icon. Television host, newspaper columnist, industry legend and godfather of the motoring beat, Ray Butch Gamboa, has reached his checkered flag. I first met sir Butch back in 2001, when I joined the automotive beat with C! Magazine. I was a...
NLEX appointed Ronald Dulatre as the new governor to represent the team in the PBA board. The announcement came on Saturday, Dec. 2, where Dulatre replaced Rod Franco who has retired but remains as NLEX consultant. Ronald Dulatre replaces Rod Franco as team governor in the PBA. “With a remarkable...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has suspended for 90 days both the registration and driver’s license of a motorist who stopped his sports utility vehicle (SUV) in the middle of C-5 Road in Taguig City and confronted a truck driver in another road rage incident that went viral on social...
BACOLOD CITY – A tricycle driver died and his two passengers were injured in a collision with a trailer truck loaded with sugarcane in Barangay Alicante, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, November 28. Police identified the fatality as Nilo Libo-on, 40, of Victorias City, Negros...
ATIMONAN, Quezon – Five persons were injured in a three-vehicle collision on the Maharlika Highway in Barangay Balubad, this town, on Wednesday afternoon, November 29. Police identified the victims as Angeles City, Pampanga residents Eugene, 32, driver; his passenger, Zach, a minor; and...
KABACAN, North Cotabato (PNA) – Four persons died in a road crash here involving a passenger van and two motorcycles on Monday night, police said. Police Major Maxim Peralta, town police chief, identified the fatalities as Mohaimen Bangkailan, 29, and Nasser Mansag Cadulong, the motorcycle...
MAUBAN, Quezon – Fifteen passengers were injured when the van they were riding in plunged into a creek on the Mauban-Sampaloc Road, Barangay Concepcion, this municipality, on Saturday morning, November 25. FIFTEEN persons were injured when a van fell into a creek in Mauban, Quezon on...
