One of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers charged alongside Senator Jose “Jinggoy” P. Ejercito Estrada in a plunder case surrendered before the Sandiganbayan on Monday, June 1, hours after the anti-graft court issued arrest warrants against the respondents. The...
The Sandiganbayan has scheduled the arraignment and pre-trial of Senator Jinggoy Estrada and former Public Works Secretary Manuel Bonoan at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2, in a graft case involving ₱573 million over alleged irregularities in flood control projects. The case, docketed as Criminal...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Friday, May 29, posted ₱90,000 bail before the Sandiganbayan in connection with graft charges filed against him over alleged irregularities in flood control projects. The anti-graft court’s Second Division had earlier issued arrest warrants and hold departure orders...
The Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) on Thursday, May 28, filed plunder and graft charges before the Sandiganbayan against Senator Jose “Jinggoy” P. Ejercito Estrada and former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan over alleged illegal budget insertions and more...
Parañaque City 2nd district Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan reminded his constituents that flood mitigation is a shared responsibility between the government. This, as Yamsuan thanked the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for immediately sending an amphibious excavator to begin work in...
The rehabilitation of the collapsed section of the Baguio-Bontoc Road in Barangay Caliking, Atok, Benguet has begun. In a statement Saturday, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported that the thoroughfare has been a one-lane road with a stop-and-go traffic scheme for almost a...
Complaints involving eight alleged “ghost” farm-to-market road (FMR) pro jects in Davao Occidental worth around P94 million were filed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) before the Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday, May 21, against Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials...
A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineer told the Sandiganbayan Third Division that a controversial flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan allegedly lacked the required construction materials test report despite being reported as 95.75 percent complete. During the Wednesday, May...
Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Dizon has relieved two officials of the DPWH-Cordillera after a 13-year-old boy recently plunged to his death due to the lack of road safety signages and traffic control devices on a deserted collapsed road in Barangay Beckel, La Trinidad,...
A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineer on Tuesday, May 19, testified before the Third Division of the Sandiganbayan that the insertion of projects through “errata” or proposed amendments had allegedly happened several times in the past. Engineer Gerald Longoria, of the DPWH...
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Motorists can expect lighter traffic along one of Manila 's busiest thoroughfares as the drainage improvement project on Bonifacio Drive near Roxas Boulevard is set to wrap up by May 15, according to city officials. Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso and Department of Public Works and Highways ...