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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 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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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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Supporting local businesses is vital, but it should not overshadow the need for transparency and integrity in public works.
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Engr. Lao, a topnotch Mapua graduate and an expert environmental engineer, gave me an album of pictures two months ago showing flooding in various parts of the…
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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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Bulacan Governor Daniel Fernando announced Sunday that he will issue an executive order requiring all flood control projects in the province to be reviewed and…
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The local government of Manila on Friday disclosed that telecommunications firm Globe Telecom is set to expand its network infrastructure in the capital, with…
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The uncomfortable truth laid bare by this necessary infrastructure is that even the mightiest pumps are rendered impotent by the smallest acts of citizen…
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Some projects were suspended due to pending environmental clearances and permits.
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Despite the billions of pesos apparently lost to corruption, Malacañang said the 15 contractors will not be blacklisted until the investigation is completed.
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