Building permits slide 17.5% as flood scandal bites
The number of construction projects covered by approved building permits reached 12,705 in October 2025 — a 22.6 percent drop from 16,405 in the same month…
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The number of construction projects covered by approved building permits reached 12,705 in October 2025 — a 22.6 percent drop from 16,405 in the same month…
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An opposition lawmaker on Thursday blasted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for failing to deliver to send the masterminds of the multi-billion-peso flood…
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The House of Representatives’ Minority Bloc on Thursday, 25 December, slammed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for failing to place a single “big fish” allegedly…
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The fallout from the flood control scandal that allegedly involved officials of the House of Representatives did not end with investigations. It reached…
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As a senior DPWH official, Cabral was allegedly central to the handling of budget allocations under the allocables scheme.
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A cache of internal documents from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has revealed how infrastructure funds running into the billions of pesos…
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A motion for inhibition filed by a defendant in a criminal case involving a mining firm was denied by a Nueva Vizcaya Regional Trial Court (RTC) for lack of…
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There will be no holiday furlough for contractor Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya II and three former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers who are…
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The Marcos administration and Congress have long stopped worrying about what they can do to better the lives of our people and grow our nation. They now only…
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Tuesday turned over the CPU and other files used by former undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral during…
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There will be no holiday furlough for contractor Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya II and three former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers…
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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) disclosed on Monday that it will model its 2026 infrastructure projects after successful post-disaster…
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Shared fraternity ties will not shield former House Speaker Martin Romualdez from scrutiny as the Office of the Ombudsman considers a civil forfeiture case…
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Cabral was believed to possess crucial information related to the alleged anomalies, including a supposed list of proponents ranging from lawmakers to private…
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Batangas 1st District Rep. Leandro Leviste said all the senators were listed in the late Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Undersecretary Maria…
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In a country battered regularly by typhoons, corruption in disaster mitigation is not merely theft — it is negligence with potentially deadly consequences.
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When police later confirmed that it was indeed Cabral, and that the initial finding pointed to suicide, the doubts did not disappear; they merely shifted.
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The Office of the Ombudsman on Monday announced that it has issued a subpoena duces tecum directing the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to…
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