
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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In all, Dolor came up with P39 billion set aside for his province that he was never informed about.
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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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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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For Marcos, AKAP is not merely a line item to strike out; it is a litmus test.
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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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The ampaw project in Calumpit, Bulacan in which the substandard structure was not hidden from President Marcos was just the tip of the iceberg.
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‘We are watching the market’s response to the rice import suspension very closely.’
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President Marcos had expressed surprise, saying all projects can’t cost exactly P100 million each.
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Since PDAF and all forms of pork barrel were ruled violative of the Constitution by the High Tribunal, the operations through the 15 contractors are criminal…
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‘In many of our public markets in Manila, in line with the mayor’s directive, prices of basic goods should not exceed the levels set by the DTI for vendors.’
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US President Donald Trump said Monday that gold imports will not face additional tariffs, days after confusion flared on whether recent hikes applied to…
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Under the provisions of the law, the fund should be automatically and regularly provided to PhilHealth, but it received a zero allocation.
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The following words of President Bongbong Marcos make us feel good by simply repeating them:
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Funds for programs under these laws were reallocated through manipulations undertaken in the bicam.
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Consumer prices in China remained stable in July, official data showed Saturday, providing a respite for the world's second-largest economy,…
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