Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:38:08 +0000
Members of the House of Representatives may have been allotted P60 million each from the P75-billion “insertion” in the DPWH budget.
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:23:33 +0000
After a heated debate, senators on Monday agreed to delete P75 billion in additional funding that was allegedly “inserted” into the budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:46:58 +0000
Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr. lashed back at House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Monday, accusing the latter of pursuing a “bootleg” investigation in the chamber as part of an apparent “pre-election agenda to lay siege to the stalled 2019 General Appropriations Act (GAA) and destabilize the Duterte administration.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:26:32 +0000
Instead of training their sights on teachers, why not look for former policemen and soldiers who are now guns for hire?
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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: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:14:22 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to follow up on its court petition seeking to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA) as terrorists.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:01:05 +0000
SEN. Panfilo Lacson sought the immediate dismissal from service of seven policemen who were caught firing their guns indiscriminately during the holidays. The senator, who headed the Philippine National Police (PNP)…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 01:11:46 +0000
The seven policemen caught firing their guns indiscriminately during the Holidays should be “given the boot,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said.
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