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The pilot-testing of the express bus will start on Monday, March 23, 2015. The express bus makes fewer stops so that its passengers will reach their destinations faster. The inter-agency project was conducted by the Metro Manila Development Authority, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board and the Department of Transportation and Communications.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development is proud to announce that more than 1 million of its beneficiaries in the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps will graduate in elementary and high school this year.
According to Presidential Deputy Spokesperson Abigail Valte, it is up to the Philippine government if it will take legal steps to make members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front criminally-liable for the Mamasapano incident.
A citizens’ group is asking President Aquino to step down due to his alleged lack of competence.
Malacanang has finally approved the release of the exchange of text messages or SMS conversations between President Aquino and resigned Philippine National Police chief General Alan Purisima. The President himself gave his consent to a request from the Senate concerning the release of transcriptions of his SMS conversations with Purisima during the early hours of January 25. Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Undersecretary Abigail Valte said that the President was for the pursuit of justice and has […]
Senator Antonio Trillanes revealed details of the Senate executive session regarding the Mamasapano incident, despite the Senate vote to the contrary.
According to the investigation of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), several of its members committed war crimes during the Mamasapano incident but added that they will not surrender said personnel, preferring to penalize them according to the group’s own rules.
The Malacañang is not worried about the latest survey of Pulse Asia which revealed that 44% of Filipinos are not in favor of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).
Congress passes the bill proposing tax exemptions for persons with disabilities (PWD).
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is going to start installing free WiFi in public areas in July. Over a thousand municipalities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will receive said free WiFi.
The Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 1 and 2 will stop operations from April 2 t0 April 5 as part of their yearly maintenance.
Hadji Abdullah Camlian, a member of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel, believes that the Mamasapano incident was not a massacre. “In my view, the term ‘massacre’ is if you kill people, murder people (who are unarmed) and have no way to fight back, you kill them in group, or whatsoever, that is massacre,” Camlian said. He also cited the definition of massacre by the Cambridge Dictionary as “the killing of a large number […]
