Swimming in blood money
This flood will never recede unless the thieves are named, charged, and punished — including the congressmen who helped rig the system.
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This flood will never recede unless the thieves are named, charged, and punished — including the congressmen who helped rig the system.
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Flood control infrastructure is not optional in a country battered yearly by typhoons.
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Faustino revealed that supposed flood control projects in her municipality were never coordinated with the local government.
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‘More than flood control, what the Filipino people badly need is greed control.’
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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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Typical of his recent soundbites, this time Mr. Marcos Jr.’s remarks can’t be cynically dismissed as another lame attempt at populist politicking.
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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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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Wednesday ordered the immediate blacklisting and filing of charges against a construction firm over a “ghost” flood…
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President Marcos had expressed surprise, saying all projects can’t cost exactly P100 million each.
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. won’t be releasing the names of those allegedly involved in irregularities tied to flood control projects — at least not…
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Thousands of farmers in Northern Luzon are now landowners — free from decades of debt — thanks to the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) latest distribution…
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When British tourist Luke Bradburn, 28, visited Japan last year, he stumbled upon the ghost town of Kinugawa Onsen in Tochigi Prefecture.
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A total of 15,195 Certificates of Condonation with Release of Mortgage (CoCRoMs) were distributed to 9,501 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) across the…
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The cases stemmed from findings under its Run After Fake Transactions or RAFT Program, which investigates the use of fake receipts from non-existent companies.…
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PALAYAN CITY, Nueva Ecija — Around 100 Novo Ecijano farmers received much-needed relief as the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) canceled their land…
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