The Alliance of Concerned Transport Operators (ACTO) expressed its readiness to implement a P0.50 reduction in basic fares on Feb. 14. ACTO chief Efren de Luna said, with diesel prices now averaging with just P25-27 per liter, their members are willing to roll back fares.
Palace bares P7-B job program
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has issued an executive order ordering all government agencies to set aside 1.5 percent of their budget for maintenance and other operating expenses to fund a P7-billion job program.
Jobless Filipinos to plant trees
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is to pay 180,000 people to plant trees across the archipelago as part of efforts to ease the fallout from the global economic meltdown. The contractual job offers would be in the so-called "green-collar" category such as "re-greening of logged-over uplands" and the "regeneration of mangrove areas." Job-seekers would also be paid to clean up coastal areas, plant coconuts, while Manila would fund efforts to retrofit petrol-burning buses to run on liquefied petroleum gas and install solar panels and generate electricity that harnesses rivers in rural areas.
Program for "homeless" teachers launched
The Department of Education (DepEd) has begun a housing program for public school teachers who do not own homes.
Remove documentary stamp tax on OFW
Militant lawmakers pushed for the removal of the documentary stamp tax (DST) on all monetary remittances from Filipinos abroad to their families in the Philippines.
GSIS reminds pensioners to renew status
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is reminding its old-age and survivorship pensioners to renew their active status on their birth month to ensure the receipt of their pension.
De los Angeles sued, P187-M estafa case
Investors in the beleaguered Legacy Group of Companies filed a P187 million syndicated estafa case against Celso de los Angeles and his family.
Paule brought to Pasay City Jail
Jaime Paule, the alleged Malacañang liaison in the P728-million fertilizer fund scam, arrived at the Pasay City Jail where he would be detained following his discharge from the St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City.
WB defends decision to keep report confi
Washington-based lender the World Bank on Thursday defended its decision to keep its report on alleged corruption in a roads project confidential.
Arroyo urged to sack DFA, DILG chiefs
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno should be sacked for the "shame brought to the country" by agreeing to detain convicted rapist Lance Corporal Daniel Smith with the US embassy.
Negros rebels own raid on Cojuangco farm
Communist rebels in Negros said on Thursday that the raid on a farm owned by businessman Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, was part of their efforts to fight feudalism in the countryside.
Dozens injured in Indonesia quake
At least 42 people were injured and hundreds of homes and buildings damaged when a major earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island near the Philippines early Thursday.
Pacquiao's training to differ for Hatton fight
Manny Pacquiao's celebrated trainer Freddie Roach said handling British slugger Ricky The Hitman Hatton would be a different business compared to the strategy they used against Oscar de la Hoya.
Vi not keen on seeking nat'l post in 2010
Batangas Governor Vilma Santos had reiterated that running for national position in the 2010 elections is not her priority at this time.
2 Pinoy students join elite math competition
Two Filipino high school students have been invited to represent the Philippines in the elite 2009 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) this March.
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