MMDA Plan To Ban Provincial Buses On EDSA Gets Support From Leni Robredo

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – Unless the courts step in to issue a restraining order, the MMDA plan to ban provincial buses and terminals on EDSA is set to kick in on June 1st.

Under the brilliant plan by luxury car-owning execs at MMDA, Metro Manila passengers going north like Baguio will have to hop on a city bus — luggage, bayong and Balikbayan box in tow —to Valenzuela City to take a provincial bus to Baguio.

Those going south like Bicol will have to take a city bus to Santa Rosa, Laguna to catch a provincial bus to their final destination.

Bicol, did you say?

Well, the country’s No. 1 (or is it No. 2?) Bicolana — Vice President Leni Robredo has thrown her 100% support for the MMDA plan.

”Sanay akong maghintay ng city bus along the highway, on my way to take the provincial bus to Naga, just like most people from the laylayan do,” she told The Adobo Chronicles.

Many will recall the viral photo of Robredo waiting to hail a bus from underneath an unnamed underpass in Metro Manila.

So she knows the drill, and has no problem whatsoever with the controversial MMDA plan.

Palace Admits: Duterte Is Sick!

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Rappler’s website has a compilation of its own stories about Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s health. A photo that has been circulating on social media shows Duterte supposedly wearing a colostomy bag. His Hong Kong trips with his family were said to be appointments with doctors. The news media have been fascinated at his darkening skin color. Many wondered why he napped through the distribution of diplomas at last week’s graduation ceremonies at the Philippine Military Academy.

Today — once and for all — Malacañang Palace finally admitted that the President is sick. Very sick.

”He’s sick and tired of all the rumors and speculations about his health, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo told members of the Malacañang Press Corpse (not a typo).

To end it all, Panelo said: “I have news for you. Si Duterte ay isang masamang damo na matagal mamatay (Duterte is bad grass that won’t die for a long time). So, you scheming yellow politicians and destabilizers, foreign-funded news media and netizen trolls — you can all eat your heart out.  Duterte is not going anywhere, and you can kill your hallucinations about Leni Robredo becoming President any time soon, or ever.”

End of story.

 

Leni Robredo On Decreasing PH Inflation Rate: ‘Nakakabahala!”

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Media reports show that the Philippines’ inflation rate may have decreased to below 3% in May, marking its lowest since September, 2017.

Reacting to the news, Vice President Leni Robredo said the government must explain this unusual phenomenon to the Filipino people.

”Nakakabahala,” (it’s concerning), she said, adding: “Progress should always go upward, not downward. I am very concerned that our inflation rate is going down. Anything that goes down is bad for the economy, bad for the country, bad for our people.”

Expect the London School of Economics to invite her again soon to speak to its students.