Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:01:55 +0000
Senators quizzed the DPWH on Monday over the P75 billion that was added to the agency’s proposed 2019 budget.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:05:34 +0000
DPWH Secretary Mark Villar finally admitted on Monday that he has no knowledge of the P75-billion “insertions” in the agency’s budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:24:52 +0000
From above, a curious sight would greet anyone monitoring the progress of a multimillion-peso road project connecting Batangas City to San Pascual and Bauan towns in Batangas province.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:24:42 +0000
While his colleagues are bent on passing the proposed P3.8-trillion budget for 2019 on time, Sen. Panfilo Lacson would rather see it delayed than be passed filled with pork.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:21:31 +0000
Why are members of the House of Representatives raising questions about the proposed P3.8-trillion budget for 2019 and leveling charges against Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno only now, after they have passed the spending bill? Senate President Vicente Sotto III asked on Monday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:32:24 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he was “enjoying” the emergence of fresh allegations that more lawmakers had been given even bigger allocations for their districts
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:30:57 +0000
Sorsogon province received P10 billion for infrastructure projects in 2018 alone from the national government, Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:45:37 +0000
It’s “unbelievable” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno was unaware of the P10-billion infra fund for Sorsogon, says Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:27:45 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno orchestrated the “insertion” of some P75 billion in the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 without President Rodrigo Duterte’s consent, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:24:48 +0000
Don’t look at us.Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and his buddy, former House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas, dismissed insinuations that they had a hand in funneling billions of pesos in pork to their congressional districts.
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