Manigong Bagong Taon! 2015

May you succeed in the year 2015 and achieve all your goals you have set. 

Happy New Year!

Maligayang Pasko! Merry Christmas! 2014

Heaven and Earth is about to Celebrate
The birthday of our King Jesus
Who has sacrificed himself
to save use from our sins
May his love and affection
Fills your soul and spread to others
Merry Christmas!

MRT and LRT Will Increase fares in January

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) announced that they will be implementing the fare increase for the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) and Light Rail Transit Lines 1 and 2 (LRT-1 and LRT-2) and it be effective January 4, 2015. The new fare will be P 11.00 (base fare) + P 1.00 (per kilometer) formula.

DOTC Secretary Jun Abaya said: "It's a tough decision, but it had to be made. It's been several years since an increase was proposed. We delayed its implementation one last time until after the Christmas season. While 2015 will see increased fares, it will also see marked improvements in our LRT and MRT services."

"We must emphasize that around P10 billion will still go to subsidizing LRT and MRT passengers. But the premise of the user-pays principle is this: if what each rider pays is closer to the actual cost of his or her own trip, the P 2 Billion savings can be used for development projects and relief operations to benefit those who never even get to use the LRT or MRT."

"I'm referring to the vast majority of Filipinos outside of Metro Manila - those in other parts of Luzon, in the Visayas, and in Mindanao, most especially those whose lives have been severely affected by typhoons and calamities. They will be the real beneficiaries of a more equitable distribution of these savings."

Beware of Taxi in the Philippines

There are a lot of reports that crimes in the Philippines involving taxi drivers are rampant there are rapes, robbery, holdup done by taxi drivers. Now, this a rude taxi driver who curse and insults his passenger just because he don't have the exact amount of money to pay his fare. He posted a video on his Facebook page with a warning to other passengers:



"I was late for my Final Exam in Ateneo because of this guy from RED ANGELO taxi. I've been calling the company but no one is answering.

He didn't have change for my 500 so we had to go to the nearest gas station (petron jupiter) to break my 500. In Petron he took his fare and didn't take me back to Ateneo, he left me there.

Kindly share, I want to make sure that the only thing he'll be driving for the rest of his life is a pedicab. I want his license suspended.

Maraming Salamat Po!"

When they chance upon another taxi the driver tried to change the money while insulting the passenger at the same time.

The victim filed his complaint at the Land Transportation and Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTRFB). The taxi was registered as Red Angelo taxi with plate number UVU-627.

Taxi Driver Arrested for Raping DLSU student

MANILA, Philippines - Miguel Maranan, 31 was identified as one of the two men who raped and robbed a 19-year-old student from De La Salle University in Manila. He was arrested infront of his house in Upper Bicutan, Taguig at around 7 a.m. right after he returned his cab to the taxi garage Naning’s car barn.

In an interview, he said that he only molested and robbed the girl but not raped. According to a news report, the girl rode the Hyundai Accent Taxi (license plate UVB-953) outside a bar that is located in in Fort Bonifacio last November 29, 2014. The girl failed to check the front passenger seat where an accomplice, known as Jeff was hiding . She told the Maranan to drive her to a condominium on Taft Avenue but he took the girl to a motel in Las Piñas City, where he and Jeff raped her for 10 hours. Jeff threatened the girl at knifepoint while in the taxi. Maranan and Jeff then took the girl’s cell phone and bag and asked for P6,000.

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250 Farmers Held Rally at Aquino Residence

250 farmers carry out a lightning rally right in front of the house of President Benigno Aquino III (NOynoy) in Times St., Quezon City asking for his ouster because of his incompetent leadership. It turned ugly when police tried to disperse them, Twelve policemen were injured.

Senior Superintendent Joel D. Pagdilao, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director said that the injured cops were, Senior Police Officer 1 Reyes, Police Officer 2 Pedrozo, and Police Officers 1 Ryan Paul Ocampo Tifles, Coco, Marquez, Madarang, Japaneses, Esteban, Bitumen, Lagundi, Negrito, and Ng. They were treated after they suffered different kinds of injuries.

The rally happened at around 9:20 a.m. Saturday November 29, 2014 in front of 25 Times St., Barangay West Triangle, Quezon City. He said that approximately 250 farmers from the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) headed by its secretary general, Antonio Flores, stormed the area to hold a protest action there.

Even without a permit, the protestors were allowed by Supt. Pedro Sanchez, the station commander of QCPD Police Station 2 (PS-2) in Masambong, to go on with their program. Things get out of hand when protesters tried to paint the gate red, police tried to stop them and violence broke out. Police arrested Antonio Flores he was taken to the
QCPD headquarters in Camp Karingal. He will be charged with serious physical injury, direct assault against an agent of a person in authority, and illegal assembly are being readied against the militant leader.

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Hong Kong Media blacklisted in Philippines for Questioning Aquino at Apec summit

9 Hong Kong journalists have been blacklisted from entering the Philippines to cover next year's Apec summit after they asked the country’s president questions at last year's meeting about the Manila bus tragedy.

The news emerged after Now TV cameraman Eric Lee Kwok-keung – one of the journalists who covered the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit last year in Bali – was denied entry to the Philippines on Thursday and was forced to return to Hong Kong.

A letter, provided by the airline Lee travelled with, indicated that a total of six reporters from Now TV, two from Commercial Radio and another from RTHK had been placed on a “Black List”.

The order issued by the immigration department reads:

“Acting on the 29 May this year. Letter of Ager P. Ontog, Jr., Director General, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, Office of the President, requesting that the above-named subjects be prevented from entering the country to cover the APEC Summit next year for heckling of President Benigno S. Aquino III during the latter’s visit to Bali, Indonesia during the October last year CEO Summit.

Thus, we hereby include the above-named subjects in the Bureau’s Black List with remarks: ‘Undesirability’.”

In October last year, the reporters from the three media outlets were hauled away and had their media passes confiscated after they fired questions at Aquino as he walked past a non-restricted area of the Bali International Convention Centre.

The reporters asked the president if he intended to meet Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, and if he would apologise to family members of victims who died in the hostage crisis.

Aquino did not reply to the questions.

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