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(PNA photo) MANILA - The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), the operator and maintenance provider of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), has surpassed 20 million safe man-hours in all of its International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-certified facilities and offices. The LRMC has been recognized for its "outstanding safety achievement" by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) - Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC). It noted that the achievement was reached in a span of two years and 10 months. "The 20 million safe man-hours record is an industry b...

MRT-3 trains. (PNA file photo) MANILA - The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) has reached a daily ridership of 294,621 on Thursday, beating the previous day's record of 293,290. This is the highest since the rail service resumed operations amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in June 2020. In a Facebook post, the MRT-3 said the increase in the number of passengers may have been the result of its "Libreng Sakay (free ride)" program and its increased maximum passenger capacity through the addition of two four-car Czech CKD trains and one Chinese Dalian train, aside...

BUTUAN CITY - Eighty-one workers in Surigao del Sur were awarded monetary claims in 2021 through the agency's Single-Entry Approach (SENA) program, the Department of Labor and Employment in Caraga (DOLE-13) said Tuesday. "To provide accessible, speedy, impartial, and inexpensive settlement procedures, the DOLE-SDSPO (DOLE Surigao del Sur Provincial Office) facilitated the settlement of the workers' requests for assistance in the province through the SENA program," DOLE-13 said in a statement. A total of PHP1,864,945 were awarded to the 81 claimants, it said, adding that conci...

(PNA photo by Joey O. Razon) MANILA - The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has denied the claims of a vice presidential candidate that there is corruption in its public utility vehicles (PUV) modernization program (PUVMP). In a statement Monday, the DOTr said vice presidential candidate Walden Bello's statement during a debate Sunday "reflects utter ignorance" about the PUVMP-the Duterte administration's largest non-infrastructure project that seeks to modernize both PUVs and the system of public transportation. Bello claimed that the PUV modernization in Davao City has be...

(Infographic courtesy of DOH) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported 1,062 new recoveries and 853 additional cases of Covid-19. Its daily Covid-19 tally shows that 784 or 92 percent of the new cases occurred within the recent 14 days. During this period, it said 170 cases or 22 percent were detected in the National Capital Region (NCR), 128 or 16 percent in Region 4-A, and 94 or 12 percent in Region 7. To date, there are 50,230 active cases in the country-slightly lower than Thursday's 50,458. The majority or 91.1 percent of these active cases, it said, are made up of m...