Discayas face crippling fines
‘It’s not just the contractors who must be held accountable, but also the professional officials and employees of the DPWH.’
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‘It’s not just the contractors who must be held accountable, but also the professional officials and employees of the DPWH.’
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As the floodwaters continue to endanger communities, the metaphor is apt: the fight against corruption is itself a battle against being submerged.
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These days, that natural joie de vivre of our race and culture may well be gone, knowing now how the public trust has been severely and systematically abused,…
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The former Senate chief claimed the allegations against him were part of a script Romualdez had designed to destroy the legislative chamber.
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It’s interesting to note that if only the NEP is never subjected to amendments, it would be the perfect mirror image of the GAB up to the point that it’s…
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The trillion-peso ‘Floodgate Scandal’ was an even heavier punch that sent administration allies reeling.
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But here’s the rub; for all the drama, for all the leadership reshuffles, for all the angry headlines and hashtags, not a single one of those implicated has…
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The massive demonstrations protesting corruption in flood control projects exposed not just an affected economy but a fractured trust in the government.
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It might qualify as the worst economic sabotage in human history that would remain unresolved for a while, even see the culprits go scot-free.
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Revolutions, as the pages of history show, are rarely polite affairs. When the injustice is too much to bear, the rage explodes in ways that no riot policemen…
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It was not the first time I marched. Although not a professional rallyist in the mold of Renato ‘Baba’ Reyes, I’ve had my fair share.
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Without insertions, he said, there would be no funds for corrupt DPWH officials ‘to play with or gamble away in casinos.’
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More revelations are forthcoming in what is now billed as “Floodgate” in reference to its American version, the Watergate scandal, that led to the resignation…
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‘I work really hard for the things that I buy and what fills my home and the trips that I go on with my family... I’ve always been true to myself.’
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Perhaps Sotto was again listening to the same ‘legal luminary’ who had wrongly advised him that the SC’s unanimous decision on the articles of impeachment…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s move to create an independent commission to investigate alleged anomalies in government flood control projects won praise from…
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Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla revealed that a lawyer representing a contractor involved in multi-billion-peso “ghost” flood control projects in…
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The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) called on the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to broaden its inquiry into the Marcos administration’s alleged flood control…
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