Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:07:30 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – After failing to reach a consensus following a meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte, and senators and leaders of the House of Representatives, Malacañang said it would no longer make any move to break the budget impasse.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 01:15:19 +0000
The Manila Water Company is set to sign agreements with business tycoons Enqirue Razon and Oscar Violago to build a new dam.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:38:54 +0000
The CEO of the Manila Water Company, Inc. apologized on Monday over the concession’s “supply deficit situation” since March 6.
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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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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 06:00:10 +0000
The Senate has realigned some P11-billion worth of road right of way projects from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) which would hurt the Duterte administration’s massive “Build, build, build” infrastructure program, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Rodante Marcoleta bared on Wednesday.
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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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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:08:18 +0000
The Senate has uncovered P96 billion realignments allegedly made by the House of Representatives even after the ratification of the 2019
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:43:57 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The approval of the P3.757-trillion 2019 national budget is now in the hands of the Senate after the House of Representatives had finalized it, House appropriations panel chairperson Rolando Andaya Jr. said Monday.
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:17:48 +0000
President Duterte has sacked Alexander Balutan as the general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) for alleged corruption amid a congressional probe of anomalies in the state-run charity.
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