Budget deficit widens despite strong tax collections
The national government’s budget deficit widened to P198.5 billion in May, up 36.7 percent from P145.2 billion a year earlier, as lower non-tax revenues offset…
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The national government’s budget deficit widened to P198.5 billion in May, up 36.7 percent from P145.2 billion a year earlier, as lower non-tax revenues offset…
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Filipinos can now monitor the actual disbursement of funds for government projects after the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) on Friday launched the…
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The Senate impeachment court has entered the next phase of the proceedings, as it is set to release the pre-trial order on Monday, serving as a roadmap for the…
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The Bicameral Conference Committee amended the budget bill and left blanks in its report, thereby offering what amounted to a blank check for pork barrel…
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The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and Robin Padilla, along with former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Mao Aplasca, to submit their…
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Trump slammed the vote, calling it ‘poorly timed and meaningless.’
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The House prosecution panel has asked the Senate impeachment court to allow the opening of a sealed box containing the tax records of Vice President Sara…
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Following the killing of three students at a high school in Tacloban City, Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian renewed his call to prohibit minors…
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A member of the 16-man defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte pushed back yesterday against allegations they have merely “mirrored” or “adopted” the…
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The Senate will open an investigation into Monday’s fatal school shooting in Tacloban City to determine if the incident was connected to the growing concerns…
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This is far more than the routine partisan bickering that has become background noise for every Filipino’s daily struggles.
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He is, as a broad coalition of civil society groups put it, ‘perhaps the most imperfect and one of the most dangerous’ choices. That is not hyperbole.
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The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Monday that the country’s Unified 911 Emergency Hotline has achieved a 97.23 percent efficiency…
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Surprise witnesses will not be prevented from testifying in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte as long as the contending parties provide at…
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Applied to public budgeting, blockchain can create a continuous and verifiable record of how public funds move from appropriation to expenditure.
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The sudden change in the Senate leadership struck us with disbelief, thus disturbing, at least for a brief but painful moment, our collective psyche.
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The prosecution team and the counsels for Vice President Sara Duterte in her upcoming impeachment trial agreed that three months or until September is a tight…
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