Four months after a bidding was held for the Bicol International Airport construction in Daraga, Albay, the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has yet to award the contract for the project.
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has revived a 17-year-old plan to find ways to decongest Metro Manila and improve integration with nearby provinces.
Transportation Secretary Jose Emilio Abaya has confirmed that pilot error was one of the causes of the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo last August.
Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya on Monday confirmed that the planned fare increase for Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3) will go ahead next year.
Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) secretary and Liberal Party secretary-general Joseph Emilio Abaya is likely to take over the party’s leadership as Secretary Mar Roxas assumed his new job in the Department of Interior and Local Government.
The notorious traffic on Metro Manila’s roads is not just a daily annoyance that millions of Filipinos have to live by. The country loses billions of dollars worth of human productivity, according to a transportation official.
Incoming Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya on Thursday assured that he will retain his predecessor’s team for a “seamless transition” as a Cabinet official.
Heeding the call of President Benigno Aquino III, the Senate leadership sees the confirmation of newly appointed Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Transportation Secretary Emilio Joseph Abaya as a walk in the park for the two close allies of the President.
Who is Joseph Emilio Abaya and why has President Benigno Aquino III entrusted him with one of the toughest Cabinet jobs?
Congress was abuzz, on Thursday, with talk that Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas was poised to take over the Department of Interior and Local Government, while Cavite Representative Joseph E.A. Abaya would move over to the Department of Transportation and Communication.
The power play between two factions in President Aquino’s Cabinet—dubbed the “Balay” and “Samar” groups, which were believed to have differed on the vice presidential candidate to support in 2010—has surfaced again.
The wreckage of the ill-fated twin engine Piper Seneca, which carried Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and with Registry No. RPC 4431, has not been found, as of Sunday evening.
The government is acquiring over P500 million worth of life rafts, jet skis, and other rescue equipment to improve the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) ability to respond to natural disasters that frequent the country.
