THE DUTERTE administration is bent on raising the excise tax on petroleum products and is now drafting a targeted subsidy scheme similar to the existing conditional cash transfer (CCT) program for poor households to be affected. Finance…
THE SENATE is poised to expedite deliberations on the proposal to grant President Duterte emergency powers in order to address the traffic crisis, targeting its passage before the Christmas rush, provided that safeguards against abuse are put…
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced changes in some of the intersections and segments of EDSA. The MMDA quotes the Inter-Agency Council on Traffic (i-ACT) Traffic Advisory: The i-ACT through the PNP-HPG, MMDA, LTO, LTFRB and…
WITHOUT doubt, shopping malls are big contributors to Metro Manila’s traffic problem because of private and public vehicles that take shoppers and mall goers to and from them. And the bigger the mall, the bigger the traffic…
SHOULD Pasig City’s partial implementation of the odd-even traffic scheme on one of its busy roads work out, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) may consider reimplementing it again in the metropolis. “The solution to traffic needs…
Pasig City starts experimental implementation of its odd-even scheme on major roads in the city on September 1. Among the streets covered by the odd-even scheme are the following: – Elisco Road westbound – R. Jabson Street northbound –…
Traffic enforcers in Makati City are set for a “make-over” to improve their people skills, and soon they will be wearing lapel cameras to promote transparency. Mayor Abigail Binay has told the Makati City Development Council that…
LAST THURSDAY evening, I was on the way to a dinner meeting called by Finance Secretary Sonny Dominguez with some economists to gather comments on tax reform proposals he presented at the Senate earlier that day. I…
CEBU CITY — The policeman, who was caught on video mauling and brandishing his gun at a truck driver, has undergone questioning at the Mandaue City Police Office (MCPO). PO3 Renato Inot and his cousin, Adelcos Alonzo,…
The Senate committee on public services chaired by Senator Grace Poe has put on hold deliberations on the proposed emergency powers for President Rodrigo Duterte pending a detailed list of projects that the government would implement to address…
