Infrastructure spending plummeted in November last year as the Marcos administration curtailed funding releases for public works projects amid an intensifying crackdown on corruption in flood-control programs. According to the latest disbursement report from the Department of Budget and Management...
LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte — This province is celebrating its 208th founding anniversary starting Monday, Feb. 2. Gov. Cecilia Araneta-Marcos will lead the opening ceremony at the provincial capitol here. A month-long celebration will be held and more than ₱95-million worth of assistance,...
Stressing that many of the country 's policies remain outdated, President Marcos has encouraged the citizenry to suggest policies that would address pressing issues. Marcos made the call in his recent vlog released on Sunday, Feb. 1, which discussed the popular policies abroad and existing...
The stage is set as more than 130 players vie for the Philippine Golf Championship presented by the Philippine Sports Commission to start the Asian Tour season on Feb. 5 to 8 at the famous East Course of the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong City. Among the top golfers expected to see...
More than 400 families are set to benefit from the mass housing projects in Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, the first ever horizontal housing units under the Marcos administration. Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Secretary Jose Ramon Aliling said some of the...
It seems that the imminent filing of new impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte could be reduced to a simple case of copy-and-paste. This, after Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon said that the 19th Congress complaint lodged by the House of Representatives against the lady...
First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Jing Quan recently met during a Chinese pianist 's performance in the country. Marcos and the Chinese Embassy in Manila respectively posted a photo of the First Lady and the ambassador together during Chinese pianist Lang...
Preparations for the “Barangay Newly Elected Officials (BNEO) program’’ are now being mounted ahead of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) scheduled on November 6, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) stated. Last year, President Ferdinand...
House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos is eyeing the passage of an amendatory measure that would significantly increase monthly cash grants for education, health care, and nutrition under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). In a statement Sunday, Feb. 1, Rep....
Around 97.7 percent of barangays across the country were able to comply with “Barangay Full Disclosure Policy (BFDP),’’ the highest ever recorded in Philippine history, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said. The DILG said the figure represents 38,523 barangays...
Malacañang has shrugged off Batangas 1st District Rep. Leandro Leviste 's claims that the Marcos administration has asked him to travel abroad in an attempt to silence him over flood control anomalies. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro labeled Leviste...
The House Committee on Justice will begin public hearings on Monday, Feb. 2 for the determination of sufficiency in form and in substance as far as the two impeachment complaints filed against President Marcos are concerned. Chaired by Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro,...
