Hubris, a disease
The parallel lies in the regions receiving large insertions, which are Bulacan and Sorsogon, and the areas flagged for anomalous projects that suggest a…
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The parallel lies in the regions receiving large insertions, which are Bulacan and Sorsogon, and the areas flagged for anomalous projects that suggest a…
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A review of the flood projects made available through the sumbongsapangulo.ph website showed Bulacan as having the most significant allocations of projects to…
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Corruption’s center of gravity
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Kevin Samidan, son of MG Samidan’s owner, told DAILY TRIBUNE that their P250,000-capital corporation is not used for bidding. Instead, their licensed sole…
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PAGASA said ‘Isang’ was packing maximum sustained winds of 55 kph near the center, and gustiness of up to 90 kph.
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The trail to the collusion of certain members of Congress and contractors, involving the slicing and dicing of pork barrel funds through substandard flood…
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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 House Committee on Appropriations could go as far as proposing budget cuts to agencies with low utilization rates to fund the chamber’s so-called pet…
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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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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. launched a comprehensive investigation into the government’s flood control program after an internal review exposed 15…
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