Discaya, Alcantara cited in contempt
Alcantara insisted that district engineers merely implemented projects under the General Appropriations Act and had ‘no actual knowledge’ of ghost projects.
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Alcantara insisted that district engineers merely implemented projects under the General Appropriations Act and had ‘no actual knowledge’ of ghost projects.
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The session also drew attention to WJ Construction, which was previously accused of delivering kickbacks to the Senate.
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Contractor Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya was cited in contempt on Thursday, 18 September 2025, for lying about the whereabouts of his wife, Cezarah "Sarah" Discaya.
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‘There is no need to cry for Argentina now as this time, it is Manila that sheds tears.’
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Senator Robin Padilla has filed a measure dubbed “Mahiya Naman Kayo” which would prohibit senators and congressmen from intervening in the budgeting and…
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Senator Loren Legarda has become the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation as her…
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An expert on the budget process said that compared to other nations, the Philippines looks like a fiscal free-for-all.
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The Senate Committee on Games and Amusement on Tuesday issued a show-cause order against Meta-Facebook Philippines executives for skipping the continuation of…
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Vice President Sara Duterte has traveled abroad 19 times from July last year to September, using her own resources, but the expenses incurred by her entourage…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson pledged on Monday to help augment the “crumb-sized” budget of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC)…
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‘We have to make it nothing less than a turning point in the conduct of governance in the Philippines. We have to make a change, and it is a fundamental change…
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Slowly but surely, despite the desperate spinning of pro-Duterte trolls and the attempted coverups by their allies in Congress, the names and the numbers are…
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Its central theme mandates the ICI to ‘repress certain acts of public officers and private persons alike which constitute graft or corrupt practices or which…
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Perhaps Sotto was again listening to the same ‘legal luminary’ who had wrongly advised him that the SC’s unanimous decision on the articles of impeachment…
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The US leader also suggested slapping tariffs of 50 percent to 100 percent on China as a way to help end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Analysts now broadly expect a 25 basis points rate cut at the end of its two-day meeting on Wednesday, as hiring slows.
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Sotto dismissed the takeover gossip, noting that no hearing on the questioned flood control projects had yet transpired under Lacson.
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Business organizations in the country have welcomed the creation of the Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI), calling it a strong signal from…
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