MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – A total of 36 families in Pangasinan preemptively evacuated due to rising water levels in a river near their residences on Tuesday. In an interview on Tuesday, Vincent Chiu, operations chief of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), said 19...
Twenty officials and personnel of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Cebu are facing multiple criminal cases in connection with two alleged anomalous flood control projects in the province, the Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed on Tuesday, August 4. DOJ spokesperson Polo...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union -- Hundreds of residents were displaced while several areas in La Union were affected by flooding, power interruptions, and a landslide from heavy rains caused by tropical cyclone Luis and the southwest monsoon. The La Union Provincial Information Office said 27...
Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez 's counsel, lawyer Ade Fajardo, has cited developments in the malversation case against former senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. as indication that the "case" against his client was weak, if not totally unwarranted. Romualdez, a two-time former House...
Former senator Bong Revilla 's temporary liberty after posting bail does not mean the malversation charges against him are over, says Malacañang. "Hindi pa po dito nagtatapos, dahil petition for bail pa lang po ito (The case does not end here because this only concerns the bail petition),"...
Have congressmen finally made the turn image-wise from the flood control projects mess? Such is the question as House Deputy Speaker Zambales 1st district Rep. Jay Khonghun reflected on the results of the inaugural National Momentum Survey, which showed that 85.7 percent of respondents--nearly nine...
One of the legal counsels of Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez just stopped short of saying that the embattled former House Speaker was being singled out as far as the latter 's alleged involvement in the flood control projects corruption scandal was concerned. This, as lawyer Ade...
Very alarming. This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas described the possibility that former and incumbent high-ranking government officials facing corruption charges could be allowed to post bail and obtain provisional liberty. The statement came two days after the...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Sunday, August 2 that he may consider visiting Taguig City, the political bailiwick of ex-Senate president Alan Peter Cayetano, once the flood control program there is properly implemented and devoid of corruption. Lacson said in jest that he does not...
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Erwin Tulfo said on Sunday, August 2 he will consult fellow senators on whether or not the panel should continue its investigation into the alleged flood control anomalies. According to Tulfo, the committee must first be formally constituted before any...
Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla said on Saturday, Aug. 1, that the Sandiganbayan’s decision granting bail to former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. in his pending malversation case involving the alleged anomalous P92.8-million flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan was “part...
No less than the sitting chairperson of the Sandiganbayan’s Third Division, Associate Justice Karl B. Miranda, has opposed the grant of bail to former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. in connection with the pending malversation case linked to the alleged anomalous P92.8-million flood control...
