TO lighten traffic congestion on major thoroughfares during the yuletide season, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Monday was ordered to implement the modified truck ban starting December 7.
During Monday’s meeting the Metro Manila Council Special Traffic Committee directed the MMDA to enforce the ban from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day except on Sundays and on holidays.
Trucks weighing more than 4,500 kilos and that cargo trucks would be covered by the prohibition but those loaded with perishable and agricultural cargo shall be exempted from it.
Published : Thursday January 17, 2013 | Category : Nation | Hits:124
By : NEIL A. ALCOBER REPORTER
THE legal counsel of martial law human rights victims has chided the Philippine government, claiming that the biggest stumbling block for the compensation of the victims is the opposition from it and not from the Marcoses. Read more
Published : Thursday January 17, 2013 | Category : Nation | Hits:94
By : WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL
INCOMING chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista vowed on Wednesday to bring down the insurgency problem to a negligible level before the end of his tour of duty or before the Aquino administration vows... Read more
Published : Thursday January 17, 2013 | Category : Nation | Hits:89
By : JING VILLAMENTE
Employees of the Agrarian Undersecretary Felix Perry Villanueva, Finance Management Office (FMAO) officer-in-charge, stormed his office on Tuesday, to condemned the purported militarization of the department’s perimeter. Read more
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By : JOHN CONSTANTINE G. CORDON
EVEN if she is only holding an ad interim position in the Commission on Elections (Comelec), poll member Ma. Graciela “Grace” Padaca still believes that impeachment must first be initiated before she faces her corruption charge. Read more
Published : Wednesday January 16, 2013 | Category : Nation | Hits:295
By : JING VILLAMENTE REPORTER
The prosecution’s bid to turn into a state witness the backhoe operator who supposedly dug the graves of the massacre victims was opposed by the defense team handling the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre case. Read more