Pork-ridden budget
TA former Department of Budget and Management (DBM) senior official said these programs become a debt of gratitude owed to a politician instead of the right of…
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TA former Department of Budget and Management (DBM) senior official said these programs become a debt of gratitude owed to a politician instead of the right of…
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There should be a proper process before projects are included in the NEP, including passing through the Municipal Development Councils and Regional Development…
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Anything less isn’t poverty alleviation but poverty management — and managing poverty is just a fancy way of accepting it.
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So what exactly died? Because this sounds like the pig is doing fantastic and is apparently more clever now.
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First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos recently gathered sugar industry stakeholders in Negros Occidental to discuss how the government can help revitalize the…
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Instead, the budget is kept voluminous and splits a single road repair project into a half-dozen items, maintenance here, rehabilitation there, flood control…
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The money did not vanish. It reappeared under the Local Government Support Fund, in a line called financial assistance to local government units worth P34…
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The lawmaker said genuine transparency required dismantling the mechanisms that allow such insertions, rather than simply putting cameras on the proceedings.
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ILOILO CITY — The Iloilo provincial government has shifted its response into “disaster mode” as the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI) infestation threatens…
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Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own kind of authorship.
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Tinawag ni Senador Panfilo "Ping" Lacson noong Huwebes, 13 August, na mas masahol na bersyon ng pork barrel system ang tinaguriang "Leadership Fund."
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Once again, former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has won a reprieve from serious charges against him, but Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla reminded…
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One of the more notable omissions in President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent State of the Nation Address was a renewed warning against tampering with the…
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He has used the authority sparingly, and mostly on items that were already indefensible, not on every project that bled the GAA dry.
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ILOILO CITY — More than 30 percent of Iloilo's sugarcane plantations, or over 7,000 hectares, have been affected by the red-striped soft scale insect (RSSI),…
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The perversion of Congress was at its worst after the Marcos administration took over, where pork projects became a commodity.
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Mang Inasal, the Philippines’ grill expert, marks National Mang Inasal Pork BBQ Blowout Day on 8 July with a two-stick Pork BBQ Meal (with rice and spiced…
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The Philippine soft tennis team will use its victorious campaign in the NH Bank Korea Cup International Soft Tennis Tournament as momentum as it continues to…
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