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(Eagle News)—Over P500 million worth of fuel subsidy cards have been distributed to jeepney franchise owners under the government’s Pantawid Pasada Program, the Department of Transportation said. According to the DOTr, the P511,145,000 worth of cards which translates to 102229 cards was as of April 11. Each card contains a P5000 fuel subsidy. The program was conceptualized to cushion the effects of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law.
(Eagle News)—The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines has hoisted a yellow alert on the Luzon grid anew, after lifting the same hours before. The NGCP said in a Facebook post the alert was in place on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cause for the re-hoisting of the alert, which means reserves are less than the capacity of the biggest plant online, or […]
(Eagle News)—-The Department of Public Works and Highways has released a list of roads that are scheduled to undergo reblocking and repair. The following roads are scheduled to undergo the same from Friday, April 12, at 11 p.m. to Monday, April 15 at 5 a.m. EDSA: southbound from New York Street before Monte de Piedad, 1st lane from sidewalk northbound between White Plains Subdivision Gate 4, second lane northbound, 50 meters after Magallanes MRT to […]
(Eagle News)—–A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck Masbate on Saturday, April 13. The quake hit 11 kilometers east of Masbate at 5:34 a.m., the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. According to PHIVOLCS, the depth of focus of the quake, which was of tectonic origin, was 1 kilometers. An intensity II and an instrumental intensity II were reported in Masbate. No damage to property nor aftershocks were expected.
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte was unable to attend the PDP-Laban campaign rally in Marawi due to bad weather, the party said. According to Ron Munsayac, PDP-Laban spokesperson, Duterte’s helicopter “wasn’t given clearance to take off from Davao City.” Munsayac said despite Duterte’s absence, “we can still consider the Marawi City rally a successful one since most of the party’s senatoriables were able to personally meet and deliver their messages to our partymates, leaders, and supporters” […]
(Eagle News)—At least 12 Abu Sayyaf bandits were killed in several clashes with the military on Thursday, April 11, in Sulu. The Western Mindanao Command said the first clash was between the group led by Radullan Sahiron and Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and the 32nd Infantry in Sitio Bud Taming, Barangay Panglayahan, Patikul. Past 3 p.m., members of the 1st Scout Ranger Battalion engaged 80 Abu Sayyaf members led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan and Almujer Yadah […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 12, skipped the PDP-Laban campaign in Marawi. The Palace has yet to say why this was. Duterte was present in PDP-Laban’s campaign rally in Bacolod the day before. He spoke before a bullet-proof glass, the second time since he started campaigning for his candidates. The Palace has refused to release a medical bulletin of the President, who is in his 70s, saying the chief executive himself would inform […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, April 12, said the government was ready should President Rodrigo Duterte veto the 2019 budget bill in its entirety. Economic managers have prepared contingency plans “responsive to any conceivable event, and they will correspondingly adjust their targets, which include the execution of programs and projects relating to infrastructure as well as the delivery of basic services to the people,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. According to Panelo, “while we are […]
(Eagle News)—House appropriations chair Rolando Andaya Jr. said the House of Representatives will respect whatever President Rodrigo Duterte decides to do with the 2019 budget bill. He said a veto, however, would give the chief executive the “opportunity to restore more than P80 billion” allegedly slashed by the Senate “from allocations intended for the President’s projects.” He said he was “confident that the Office of the President would consider our exposés in their review of […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court to allow her to vote in the May 13 elections. De Lima, who is detained on drug charges, filed the motion following a recommendation from the Commission on Elections for her to “still exercise her right to suffrage through the escorted voting system..” The Comelec made the suggestion after it denied De Lima’s request for “a special polling place at […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, April 12, wants to probe why there have been rotating brownouts in the country, even if the Department of Energy gave a previous assurance there was enough energy supply. In an interview over GMA’s News to Go, Gatchalian, chair of the Senate’s committee on energy, said the probe would focus on why there was a lack of reserves and why different power plants bogged down at the […]
(Eagle News) — Senate President Tito Sotto on Friday, April 12, said he would support a veto by President Rodrigo Duterte of the entire budget bill for 2019. “Do (you) remember that that was my original suggestion when it came to my attention that the House leaders were being difficult,” Sotto said a day after President Duterte said he would do the same “pag talagang tagilid yan,” referring to the Congress-transmitted budget bill. Duterte said […]
