The Department of Education (DepEd) thanked Sunday, Aug. 15, the Commission on Audit (COA) for recognizing its efforts to comply with the current accounting standards. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd said it was grateful to the COA team that reviewed the financial and operational accounts of...
Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday called out the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) for becoming the “single-biggest job stranglers” since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the country. Binay expressed her disappointment at the...
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has clarified that the reported backlog in the production of license plates is primarily due to budget constraints of the Land Transportation Office (LTO). (Photo from the Department of Transportation) The clarification was made after the Commission on Audit...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) said it is ready to face any investigation on the supposed "deficiencies" in the agency's handling of at least P67 billion fund for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response as stated in the Commission on Audit's (COA) report. “We are open...
The Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) has failed to construct a hospital for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases despite receiving the funds for the project two years before the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic struck. Research Institute for Tropical Medicine This was...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has blamed lapses in the performance of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for the long delay in the distribution of over 10 million motorcycle and car plates worth P2.15 billion. Plate number This audit observation is contained in the 2020 annual audit report of the...
More adverse audit observations were revealed by the Commission on Audit in the handling of the Department of Health of billions of pesos in government funds and in the implementation of its projects even as audit disallowances and suspensions of various transactions have reached over P8.8 billion...
There will be "no sacred cow" if a government agency or official is found liable for any misuse of public funds, Malacañang declared Thursday after the Department of Health (DOH) came under fire over alleged mismanagement of pandemic-related funds. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a...
The Commission on Audit has called the attention of the Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez on the 1,526 sacks of rice worth P3.337 million that could not be accounted for in the rice distribution program for households affected by the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) last year. Mayor Richard...
Audit deficiencies in the Department of Health’s (DOH) management of some P67.32 billion in COVID-19 funds have been found by the Commission on Audit (COA) as it warned that such quesitonable handling of funds has triggered doubts into the regularity and propriety of transactions made. DEPARTMENT...
DOH/MB The Department of Health (DOH) said that it is currently addressing the “deficiencies” reported by the Commission on Audit (COA) regarding its handling of funds worth P67.3 billion for the country’s response against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. “The flagged issues are...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has asked the Department of Tourism (DOT) to pursue administrative and other legal action against accountable officers, including tourism attaches assigned abroad, for their continued failure to settle or liquidate some P333.84 million cash advances granted them. DOT...
