Lacson pushes for transparency to kill anomalous budget insertions
Senator Ping Lacson has once again emphasized the need for transparency in budget insertions, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, to trace…
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Senator Ping Lacson has once again emphasized the need for transparency in budget insertions, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives, to trace…
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‘More than flood control, what the Filipino people badly need is greed control.’
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Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday highlighted a series of failed flood-control projects and the contractors behind them during his privilege speech,…
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Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday expressed her full support for Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s privilege speech exposing alleged large-scale corruption in…
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Senator Erwin Tulfo on Wednesday voiced his full backing for Senator Ping Lacson’s call for accountability amid alarming revelations of anomalies in the…
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Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday exposed widespread corruption involving Department of Public Works and Highways officials, contractors, and…
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Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson, in his Senate privilege speech on Wednesday, likened the systemic corruption in flood control projects to "pie-sharing."
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‘We must fix what happened in the past. And if cases have to be filed, let’s file the cases.’
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Witnesses would crumble; not even Sara Duterte could handle that expression.
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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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The chief of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has confirmed the existence of so-called “ghost” flood control projects in several towns in…
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The proposal to make the budget process transparent was contained in several previous bills that did not even reach the committee report level.
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DENR’s Potential Investment Area for forest lands have encouraged private sector participation in environmental projects.
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The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is set to open a formal investigation into alleged irregularities in multi-billion-peso flood control projects this week.
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The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is set to open a formal investigation into alleged irregularities in multi-billion-peso flood control projects next week.
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President Marcos had expressed surprise, saying all projects can’t cost exactly P100 million each.
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Project-by-project transparency must also be implemented by proactively publishing comprehensive information on all flood-control initiatives.
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