Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 06:43:04 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Friday urged Department of Budget and Management’s (DBM) Secretary Benjamin Diokno to be “man enough” to explain his alleged involvement on “questionable allocations and practices.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:26:13 +0000
There is no need to pressure Congress to pass the P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019, Malacañang said Thursday, a week after Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said any delay would be “unacceptable.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:25:44 +0000
Documents gathered by the House rules panel have shown that in 2018 alone, the Department of Budget Management Procurement Service (DBM-PS) conducted the bidding of more than P37-billion government contracts for consultants, Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said Thursday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:46:48 +0000
House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. has accused the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) of illegally bidding out last year around P198-billion worth of government contracts, including big-ticket infrastructure projects that form part of the “Build, Build, Build Program.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:31:35 +0000
Malacañang is not opposing the Senate’s move to delete the P75 billion additional fund for the 2019 budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:58:23 +0000
The House rules panel has gathered P81.1-million worth of deposit slips from winning contractors of government infrastructure projects, which found their way to the bank account of Aremar Construction Corp., a company owned by the Hamors in Sorsogon.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:33:23 +0000
House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday asked the Supreme Court to compel the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to release the fourth tranche of salary increase for government workers.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:44:20 +0000
Official reports have yet to emerge regarding the total number of government workers affected by the delay in the passage of the 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:47:07 +0000
Delaying the release of the pay increase for teachers in classrooms and other civil servants in government offices is “unconstitutional,” and an “abuse of power” on the part of Budget Sec. Benjamin Diokno, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. warned on Thursday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:42:03 +0000
Congress will be committed to “scrutinize and approve” the 2019 national budget at the “soonest possible time,” Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday.
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