Silent killers
Communities often bear the heavy burden of understanding the significant amount of money spent on initiatives that ultimately fail to provide practical…
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Communities often bear the heavy burden of understanding the significant amount of money spent on initiatives that ultimately fail to provide practical…
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The shoddy flood control projects, it turns out, are the racket of some members of Congress and the DPWH, with Bulacan the focal point for the pilferage of…
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The rotten system starts with the selection of the district or regional engineer of the DPWH. The Secretary of DPWH does not make the selection, but the…
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The Commission on Audit (CoA) has obtained the first batch of documents crucial to its impending investigation into the flood control projects in Bulacan,…
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‘We must fix what happened in the past. And if cases have to be filed, let’s file the cases.’
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Tuesday, 19 August, ordered an intensive technical and financial audit of the collapsed dike in Naujan,…
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The chief of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has confirmed the existence of so-called “ghost” flood control projects in several towns in…
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During a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on flood control projects, Senator Rodante Marcoleta questioned the role and visibility of the River Basin…
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) reported notable gains in the country’s air quality in 2024,…
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‘ Any development that goes beyond the allowable limits not only breaches regulatory requirements but also risks causing damage to the environment.’
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A thinly capitalized contractor that was one of the 15 firms President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. identified as cornering P100 billion worth of projects within three…
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Department of Finance (DoF) Secretary Ralph Recto on Monday urged lawmakers to exercise fiscal discipline during deliberations on the 2026 national budget,…
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) disclosed Monday that its Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) suspended on 15 August 2025 the…
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'Based on their information, which was backed up by a document they showed us, the permit was for three stories.'
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DENR’s Potential Investment Area for forest lands have encouraged private sector participation in environmental projects.
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‘Things were done cheaply and not completed.’
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The ampaw project in Calumpit, Bulacan in which the substandard structure was not hidden from President Marcos was just the tip of the iceberg.
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