LandBank backs PSALM with P155 billion
The country’s power sector is getting a major financial and digital boost as LandBank extends a P155-billion financing facility to the Power Sector Assets and…
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The country’s power sector is getting a major financial and digital boost as LandBank extends a P155-billion financing facility to the Power Sector Assets and…
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Instead, the budget is kept voluminous and splits a single road repair project into a half-dozen items, maintenance here, rehabilitation there, flood control…
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‘The ongoing oil crisis brought about by the war in the Middle East has shown how decades of underinvestment in road-based public transport and active…
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The proposed budget for 2027 allegedly contained a “uniform” P180-million lump-sum allocation for the establishment of evacuation centers across the country,…
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AREIT Inc. is acquiring P17.33 billion worth of malls and hotels from sponsor Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) and its subsidiaries in exchange for new shares, expanding…
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A public that tracks the money before it disappears is harder to rob quietly than one that only asks questions once the floodwaters recede.
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Transport advocates urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Congress on Tuesday to restore funding for public transportation, walking and cycling…
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President Marcos does not have aby idea about the so-called Leadership Funds, or lump sums in the budget meant for pork barrel that former Public Works and…
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The proposed P107.4 billion allocation for flood control projects could be better used to address the country’s classroom shortage, particularly as alleged…
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As scrutiny of the proposed 2027 national budget officially began Monday, a lawmaker questioned the apparent exemption of the House of Representatives from…
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The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government units worth P34…
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Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco on Monday questioned why the House of Representatives does not undergo the same pre-plenary budget scrutiny as other government…
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He said the release would ease the financial pressure on SUCs, which had previously absorbed the FHE costs using their institutional resources.
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The lawmaker said genuine transparency required dismantling the mechanisms that allow such insertions, rather than simply putting cameras on the proceedings.
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Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own kind of authorship.
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Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. confirmed Sunday that Corrections Officer 2 Bianca Ramos, the trust fund officer at…
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Even in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), touted as the President’s proposed budget for next year, traces of lump sums suspiciously similar to pork…
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