MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Actor-turned-Senator Bong Revilla is taking his vice chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Public Services very seriously. Now, he is focused on solving the country’s mass transportation problems and unending traffic woes.
In a move that left his colleagues scratching their heads (because they didn’t think of this first), Revilla urged vehicle manufacturers to come up with 5-seater motorcycles, saying that increasing the passenger capacity of Angkas and other motor ride hailing services would make a significant impact on traffic and mass transportation.
Revilla unveiled a 5-seater motorcycle model which he said he saw on one of his travels to some Southeast Asian countries.
The senator further proposed to grant full tax exemptions for vehicle manufacturers that will venture into the 5-seater motorbikes.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines ( The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – In a rare cross-partisan vote never seen before in Philippine politics, the House of Representatives has unanimously approved the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) request for confidential funds under the next budget year.
With one tiny amendment – changing the term “confidential” to “anonymous” – lawmakers have brilliantly transformed the nation’s budgetary secrecy into an open secret.
Even the staunchest critics of opaque expenditures, like Gabriela’s Arlene Brosas, ACT’s France Castro and Kabataan Partylist’s Raoul Manuel couldn’t resist the allure of these “anonymous” funds and voted in favor.
It seems that the allure of secrecy, or should we say “anonymity,” has a magical way of bringing politicians from all walks of life together. The people can rest easy knowing their tax pesos are safely concealed and in good hands!
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s been three long years and majority of Filipinos still haven’t received their National IDs. It boggles the mind of netizens because IDs can be printed in minutes by vendors along Recto Street in Manila.
Finally, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has come clean on the problem.
Upon interrogation by Senator Bato dela Rosa, PSA head Lisa Grace Bersales admitted that her agency underestimated the huge volume and amount of work that would go into the program.
She said: “We must apologize to the Filipino people for the inexcusable delay in the printing of the National IDs. The volume was so huge that we had no choice but to allow our main contractor to subcontract with a subcontractor which subcontracted with a contractor which had subcontracting agreements with several other vendors. Somehow, the work got mired somewhere in between,” Bersales said.
It was at this point that the senator proposed stopping the printing and making the National IDs digital instead since he said all Filipinos have cellphones.
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