PBBM faces flood reckoning head-on
The President made the politically loaded claim that a decades-old flood control master plan was, for the first time, actually being executed under his watch.
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The President made the politically loaded claim that a decades-old flood control master plan was, for the first time, actually being executed under his watch.
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Northern Samar 2nd District Representative and House Committee on Appropriations Vice Chairperson Edwin Ongchuan has urged the Department of Transportation…
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He alleged that some flood mitigation projects were used to disguise reclamation activities and that photographs from completed projects were reused to support…
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The Commission on Audit found no involvement by Senator Joel Villanueva in anomalies uncovered in its fraud audits of flood-control projects in Bulacan, CoA…
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Metro Manila cannot be guaranteed to become completely flood-free despite billions of pesos invested in new catchments, pumping stations, and mitigation…
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The government is looking at another $200 million in foreign financing to fight the flooding in Metro Manila, nearly a decade after the capital embarked on a…
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The Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) has asked the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to submit a full inventory of projects in Laguna de Bay…
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MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon — The Regional Development Council (RDC) in Northern Mindanao has endorsed the construction of a China-funded expressway designed to…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to prioritize constructing large-scale water detention basins to…
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The Palace assures us that investigations are ongoing. But where are the convictions? Where are the jail sentences?
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Senator Alan Cayetano seemed unfazed and even supported the administration’s crackdown against Taguig’s “illegal” reclamation efforts in Laguna de Bay, saying…
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Having spent eight years in government, I know that public service is ultimately about responsibility. Positions in government are not privileges. They are a…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. attributed the massive flooding that swamped Pampanga, Bulacan, and other Central Luzon provinces to a mix of long-neglected…
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Strategic investments fast-tracked under the government’s Green Lane initiative reached P6.36 trillion as of 31 July 2026, with renewable energy accounting for…
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The DPWH has faced scrutiny over flood-control projects in Bulacan after congressional and Senate hearings uncovered alleged ghost and substandard projects.
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We have lowered the bar so far that doing what should have been done in the first place can now look like an accomplishment.
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In those six hours, I could have reached Baguio, with a stopover or two. Instead, I barely moved around San Juan.
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SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — Flooding continued to affect 228 barangays in 16 localities in Pampanga with residents of some areas having to deal with waist to…
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