
OMB is not a Manila office
A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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Kickbacks are illegal; it is a fact, but who is to stop this practice when it has become almost institutional?
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The price tag, charged to the government, is six to eight times what the material actually costs.
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The government has allocated P107.4 billion for flood control projects under the proposed 2027 national budget, a year after the program received zero funding…
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National and local authorities are studying plans to construct a floodgate along the Parañaque River to prevent seawater intrusion and mitigate severe flooding…
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Malacañang on Monday announced that it has received the P7.2 trillion National Expenditure Program for fiscal year 2027 from the Department of Budget and…
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The zarzuela, which is meant to lift the profile of the administration while getting back at political foes, has the overall effect of rewarding grand-scale…
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Investigators should ‘piece together’ whatever information could be established, even if only five to 10 percent of the former bodyguards’ claims ultimately…
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The suitcase story needs to be investigated, not demolished, amid a wave of coordinated attacks by allies of those who have been implicated.
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The decision to put off the investigation is to prevent the Ombudsman’s ongoing probe from being prejudiced.
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The Office of the Ombudsman has filed nine counts of graft against Tarlac 3rd District Representative Noel Rivera over his alleged conflict of interest in…
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The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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Former Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan had discretion over a P10-billion lump-sum fund set aside supposedly for lawmakers seeking…
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When the powerful are released and the witnesses are silenced, the message is unmistakable: the system protects its own.
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‘There are questions that he isn’t answering properly.’
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This time his speechwriter must have, in devil-may-care fashion, put in reverse order the main culprits in the epic floodgate scandal.
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spent a year positioning himself as the exposer of “Floodgate,” not a subject of it, but the paper trail does not cooperate…
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For a country whose vast population queues for hours for P20 per kilo subsidized rice, one cannot help but ask if satellites can be eaten.
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