Poe Expects MRT-3 Overhaul To Be Completed On Time

Sen. Grace Poe said the public deserves a safe and comfortable MRT3 ride in their daily commute with huge budget poured in as subsidy to its operations and for its maintenance. During interpellation of the P147-billion proposed 2020 budget of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Poe said she expects the agency will be able to fulfil its target to complete rehabilitation of MRT3 by July 2021. "You will be done by 2021, all those rails will have been replaced?" she asked. "Yes, complete rehab, almost like brand new," Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, sponsor of the agency's budget, said. Poe noted that…

Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. said he visited the island of Sicogon in Carles town to address the loss of livelihood suffered by locals from the suspension of development activities of Ayala Land Inc. (ALI). Defensor personally met with the village chairmen and village officials of Sicogon island to hear the issues and concerns. “We had a meeting with our village chairmen last week because they are the avenue of our work on the island. I want to know the situation from them personally, that is why we asked a briefing from them,” he said in a media conference. Last…

Suspended North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco has organized a group of volunteers and partnered with several companies to extend help to quake victims in her province. Catamco told that she conducted the relief operations in her private capacity. Catamco was suspended for 90 days over her supposed involvement in an overpriced fertilizer deal involving a Cebu local government unit when she was still plain businesswoman. Her suspension ends on November 20, 2019. “As private citizen due to suspension order I lend my helping hand to victims of the earthquake in various areas of the province,” Catamco said in a statement.…