A policeman who became a witness for the prosecution identified yesterday 15 of his colleagues as some of those who manned a checkpoint and flagged down a convoy of journalists and Mangudadatu clan members who were later massacred in Maguindanao on Nov. 23, 2009.

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) wants to use radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to weed out out-of-line or “colorum” public utility buses (PUBs) and decongest Metro Manila’s major thoroughfares, an official said yesterday.

The National Wages and Productivity Commission (NWPC) has junked for lack of merit the appeal of workers from Metro Manila to provide them a more substantial wage increase.