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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Imagine that nuclear finger problem multiplied under China’s pressures; a hand that flinches in the hallway cannot be trusted to grasp the helm of the nation.
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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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Nueva Ecija Governor Aurelio Umali said Tuesday that he has filed a motion for reconsideration to contest a one-year suspension without pay imposed by the…
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The Council for Climate and Conflict Action Asia and the Institute for Autonomy and Governance, two peace monitors, warned that the MILF’s decision could harm…
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BAGUIO CITY — A Baguio City councilor is calling for the immediate removal of e-bingo operations from the city-owned Maharlika Livelihood Center, arguing that…
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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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If there was a compromise, we are left to wonder what horse-trading took place behind closed doors. Either way, transparency was the first casualty.
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Outlawing the pork barrel in the yearly budget, however, resulted in the unlimited creation of discretionary funds hidden in budget insertions.
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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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Baricuatro’s statement underscores her determination to ensure that flood control funds are properly managed and that those responsible for mismanagement or…
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My apologies for changing one of the words from the iconic nursery rhyme because the stars in today’s column is all about the one who fell from Philippine…
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