Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:06:43 +0000
As lawmakers continue to bicker over this year’s national budget, infrastructure needed to deliver vital health services
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:20:01 +0000
Senate’s decision to go back to lump-sum budgeting for the 2019 national budget would restore “huge” allocations of former House leaders.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:16:30 +0000
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres heads to Washington on Wednesday for talks on the UN peacekeeping budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:28:58 +0000
The proposal to retain the lump sum appropriations in the proposed P3.8-trillion 2019 budget was “favorably” endorsed by the Executive department, Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:47:31 +0000
President Duterte has set a meeting with Senate President Tito Sotto Tuesday night amid the ongoing impasse on the 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:13:41 +0000
US President Donald Trump is seeking $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border, likely triggering another fight with Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:03:17 +0000
The government will have no choice but to use the reenacted budget until August if the House of Representatives insists to push its amendments on the 2019 General Appropriations Act.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:16:31 +0000
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and its Japanese contractors have already started procuring the spare parts needed for the 26-month-long overhaul of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) 3 system.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 03:26:20 +0000
The Philippines exceeded its spending target in 2018, reversing 12 years of underspending, outgoing Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:47:57 +0000
Even after the ratification of the 2019 national budget, Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has allegedly directed the realignments of P25 million budget from the Department of Health (DOH) for her “favored” congressmen.
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