FARE HIKE

MANILA - The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board may

review the P2 jeepney fare increase as early as Wednesday, after recent rollbacks
in fuel prices, an official said.
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade earlier urged regulators to review the
increase, which raised the minimum fare in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and
Southern Luzon to P10 starting Nov. 2.

 DOTr wants LTFRB to review P10 minimum jeepney fare

"May board meeting tomorrow... Repasuhin siguro, as directed by Secretary

Tugade. Iyun kasing ating fare increase, nakabase sa fuel price," LTFRB Executive
Director Samuel Jardin said Tuesday.

(There's a board meeting tomorrow. We may review that, as directed by Secretary

Tugade. The fare increase is based on the fuel price.)
Jeepney operators continued to flock to LTFRB offices Tuesday to secure a matrix
needed to implement the P10 fare.
The LTFRB should have assigned a representative per area to get the fare matrix,
instead of requiring all operators to apply for it, which caused long lines at the
agency's offices, said Efren De Luna, president of the Alliance of Concerned
Transport Operators.
The fare matrix is unit-specific and operators need to provide details on jeep's
model and route, said Jardin.
The agency will give priority to the matrix application of elderly operators, he said.
DZMM, 6 November 2018
 Bagong batas

Bad news sa mga magulang na namamalo, nangungurot, namimingot at iba pang uri ng pananakit sa
kanilang mga anak dahil hindi na nila ito maaaring gawin sa sandaling pumasa ang isang panukalang
batas na isinulong sa Senado.

Bagaman at isang uri ng pagdidisiplina ng mga magulang na Pinoy sa kanilang mga anak ang ilan sa mga
nabanggit na pananakit, sa Senate Bill 1947 na inihain ni Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago ay nais nitong
ipagbawal ang lahat ng uri ng “corporal punishment” na nararanasan ng mga bata mula sa kanilang mga
magulang o guardians.

Ipinaliwanag ni Sen. Santiago na ang corporal punishment ay ang pagpaparusa na gumagamit ng physical
force na naglalayong saktan at ipahiya ang pinaparusahan.

“Corporal punishment refers to any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause
some degree of pain or discomfort, however light,” sabi ni Santiago sa kanyang panukala.

Kung dinidisiplina umano ang isang bata, dapat bigyan ito ng pagkakataon na maipaliwanag ang kanyang
panig.

Binanggit ni Santiago ang Article 11, Section 13 ng Konstitusyn na kinikilala ng estado ang gina-
gampanang papel ng mga kabataan sa nation-building kaya dapat lamang na protektahan ng gobyerno ang
physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual at social well-being ng mga ito.

Subalit karamihan umano sa mga magulang sa Pilipinas ay kilala sa paggamit ng corporal o physical
punishment sa pagdisiplina sa kanilang mga anak kung saan gumagamit ng pamamalo, pamimingot ng
tainga, pananampal, pananabunot.

“Filipino children also experience threats of physical punishment and humiliating treatments such as
being shouted at in front of others, labeling and denigration,” anang panukala ni Santiago.

Ayon naman sa World Report on Violence and Health ng World Health Organization, malaki ang
nagiging epekto sa mga bata nang pananakit sa kanila at libu-libo sa mga ito ang namamatay.

“A study conducted in 2005 found that children who are disciplined with spanking or other physical
punishments are more likely to be anxious and aggressive than children disciplined through other
methods,” anang panukala ni Santiago.

Kung ganap na magiging batas, ipagbabawal din sa mga employers, supervisors at managers ng mga
working children ang pananakit sa mga bata.

Maaari anyang disiplinahin ang mga bata nang hindi sila kailangang saktan.
 CHR looking into mandatory pregnancy test at Baguio college
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights launched an investigation into the
policy of an educational institution in Baguio City mandating female students to undergo
pregnancy tests.

In a statement, CHR expressed alarm on the now-viral memorandum of the Pines City Colleges,
which stated that all female students of the colleges of Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy must be
tested for pregnancy.

If they are found to be pregnant, the female students would not be allowed to enroll in Clinical
Dentistry or any subject that would “endanger both mother and children.”

CHR stressed that dismissal on the basis of pregnancy is clearly prohibited under the Magna
Carta of Women.

Section 13 of the law states that “no school shall turn out or refuse admission to a female student
solely on the account of her having contracted pregnancy outside of marriage during her term in
school.”

“Women and girls should not be denied exercise and full enjoyment of basic rights, they should
not suffer negative consequences in educational and work spaces, simply because they are
pregnant,” CHR said.

Akbayan party-list, for its part, called the policy of Pines City Colleges a “witch-hunt” against
women who get pregnant.

Women’s party-list Gabriela earlier called out the school and said that its policy perpetuates a
“stigma that pregnancy is socially unacceptable.”

‘Policy protective of students’

Despite the barrage of criticisms, Pines City Colleges defended its policy on mandatory
pregnancy tests.

“Pines City Colleges abides by its policy of pregnancy tests for female students who are
enrolling in any subject that would endanger both mother and child. It is a policy agreed to by
our students upon their enrolment in this institution,” the school said in a statement.

It, moreover, said the policy—deemed “discriminatory” to female students—is “protective of our
students while they are in our care and are deployed to internship programs in hospitals and to
clinical practice.”