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After the Holy Week, the daily commute for around 30,000 people will become more difficult. Beginning March 28, the Philippine National Railways will stop its Metro Manila operations to give way to the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway. The project is expected to last five years, during which regular PNR commuters will have to rely on buses to be fielded along the train routes.
If it’s too good to be true, it must be a scam. Facilitated by cyberspace, there seems to be a scam for every imaginable human activity these days, from finding romance to investing money and procuring goods and services. It’s no surprise that scammers are also preying on those who are planning vacations for the Holy Week and the rest of the Philippine summer.
Given the many issues and controversies now being faced by the Sonshine Media Network Inc., the media company owned by his ministry, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, televangelist and religious leader Apollo Quiboloy has been ordered by the House of Representatives to appear before its committee on legislative franchises on March 12.
The nation marks today the 38th anniversary of the people power revolt with new personalities organizing or participating in mass gatherings against the administration. At the EDSA Shrine, groups identified with the opposition during the 1986 peaceful revolt intend to gather to amplify calls to protect the Constitution from self-serving amendments.
A process has long been in place for the approval of the national budget. Malacañang, through the Department of Budget and Management, submits its proposed national expenditure program to Congress, and both chambers deliberate on the NEP to come up with their respective versions of the budget bill.
The Philippines was one of the first countries in Asia to have a modern airport. Since the 1960s, however, the country has fallen in its standing in the region, from being the second most progressive economy after Japan to being a laggard. These days the country trails the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in terms of many economic and human development indicators.
There was good news on the eve of the Lunar New Year: a baby boy and an older girl were pulled out of the rubble buried under mud yesterday in the landslide-hit Barangay Masara in the town of Maco, Davao de Oro.