Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:36:26 +0000
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar on Wednesday said that the government had achieved “significant progress” in dealing with right of way problems
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:25:23 +0000
(Last of three parts) LUCENA CITY — A bypass in Sariaya town, Quezon province, intended to ease traffic on Maharlika Highway should have been opened in 2017, but development of the project has dragged beyond the deadline because the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) remains grappling with right of way problems. Under the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:24:43 +0000
The owners of a house that stands in the middle of a diversion road under construction in San Pascual town, Batangas province, have accepted an offer of payment from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), in a positive sign for government infrastructure projects plagued by right of way issues.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:23:18 +0000
Why did the government approve a multimillion-peso flood control project for a river on a riverless plain in Sorsogon province?
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:22:43 +0000
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar knew that P75 billion was added to the 2019 budget request submitted by his department to Malacañang and might have been misquoted about the extra funds, according to presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo. Villar was in the Cabinet meeting when Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno presented the national budget proposal, Panelo said […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:21:57 +0000
LAOAG CITY — A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) official on Tuesday rejected claims that substandard materials were used in building a dike on a tributary of the Laoag River that collapsed a week after it was completed in July last year.
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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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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:17:30 +0000
The Senate has yet to discuss the final “resting place” for the P75 billion cut from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 01:50:46 +0000
The DPWH has rejected Senator Grace Poe’s appeal to reconsider the closure and rehabilitation of the Estrella-Pantaleon bridge.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:26:05 +0000
(Second of three parts) Tongues have been wagging about a notorious Ilocos Norte official nicknamed “Engineer Forty,” who, as the story goes, routinely pockets a 40-percent cut of the cost of infrastructure projects in the district. It’s local lore that seems steeped in reality if one considers what happened in a P10-million flood control project […]
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