Funding crunch caps service contracting program at 2 weeks
The Department of Transportation’s (DoTr) Service Contracting (SC) program is set to initially run for only two weeks, as its P1-billion initial budget is…
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The Department of Transportation’s (DoTr) Service Contracting (SC) program is set to initially run for only two weeks, as its P1-billion initial budget is…
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Once the General Appropriations Act is passed, the executive suddenly discovers it alone gets to decide which projects live and which die.
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Department of Migrant Workers said 342 Filipinos from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates arrived in the country on Friday afternoon via a…
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Five Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) safely returned to the country from Lebanon on 8 April, arriving on the Turkish Airlines flight TK084 at the Ninoy Aquino…
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More than 80 percent of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who returned to the Philippines amid the ongoing Middle East conflict still want to work abroad,…
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Senator Loren Legarda on 9 April 2026 pressed the Department of Agriculture (DA) for failing to present a clear and actionable response to rising oil…
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Congress moved roughly P303 billion in programmed items — the Armed Forces of the Philippines modernization, universal tertiary education, personal benefits,…
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‘We continue to monitor the situation, especially developments in the last 24 hours. Some countries in the Gulf states have issued alerts and even imposed…
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Deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to the Middle East has begun to decline, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said.
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The Supreme Court heard pointed arguments on Tuesday questioning the legality of “unprogrammed appropriations” (UA) in the national budget.
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Another batch of Filipinos from Qatar returned to the Philippines on Sunday night, 5 April, as part of the government’s repatriation efforts amid the ongoing…
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The Supreme Court will begin hearing petitions this week challenging provisions in the 2026 national budget that allow the continued use of unprogrammed funds,…
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The Senate Committee on Public Services is weighing an investigation into the integrity of the ongoing rehabilitation of Ninoy Aquino International Airport…
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The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) reported on Saturday that so far more than 4,200 Filipinos from the Middle East have been repatriated following the…
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The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said 177 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families have safely returned to the Philippines from Kuwait amid…
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The Department of Transportation (DoTr) said on Tuesday that it is allocating P1 billion from its 2026 budget to implement service contracting for drivers in…
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Vacillation will not serve the country, as an economist said; if the expectation is that things will get worse, then it’s time to implement determined measures…
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The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Sunday confirmed that a Filipina overseas Filipino worker (OFW) has been arrested by Thai authorities in a case…
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