Flood victims’ revolt
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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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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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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Yuchengco-led EEI Corp. is regaining ground in the construction sector with its project backlog rising 40 percent to P36.85 billion as of July, lifted by new…
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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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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso announced Tuesday that the city plans to convert the old Ospital ng Maynila building into an academic building…
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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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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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Senator Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri called out the persistent manipulation of infrastructure budgets, particularly for flood control projects, and demanded full…
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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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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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For Marcos, AKAP is not merely a line item to strike out; it is a litmus test.
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