Tag: modernization program

DOTr chief Bautista to LTFRB: Relax requirements for PUV modernization program

(Eagle News) — Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista has ordered the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board to relax the requirements for the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). The order was announced days after several transport groups announced a weeklong strike over the  formation of cooperatives under the PUVMP. Manibela and the United Transport Federation jeepney organizations had said their strike would start on March 6. Reports estimated the number of commuters to be affected […]

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Military to COA: Assets to be acquired with “unused” P3.9-billion budget being “carefully procured”

(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Thursday, July 5, said some of the assets that were supposed to be acquired through its P3.9-billion budget for 2017 were being “carefully procured” to ensure there would be no corruption. Colonel Noel Detoyato, chief of the military’s public affairs office, made the statement after the Commission on Audit called the AFP’s attention to what it said was the organization’s P3.859 billion unused budget under its […]

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DOTR USec Orbos says old trucks, other vehicles to be included in “Tanggal Usok, Tanggal Bulok” campaign

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Department of Transportation (DOTR) Undersecretary and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) general manager Tim Orbos said that they would also include old trucks in the government’s plan to phase-out dilapidated and smoke-belching vehicles plying the country’s roads. He said this as he clarified that the department had not stopped its “Tanggal Usok, Tanggal Bulok” campaign. This campaign will not only cover old jeepneys for phaseout, but trucks and other […]

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