The camp of Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada on Tuesday, July 14, opposed the prosecution’s motion to exclude former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan from the graft case pending before the Sandiganbayan Second Division. Earlier, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin...
DAVAO CITY – The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Glan in Sarangani has acknowledged that preemptive evacuation on July 10 saved the lives of residents in Barangay Mudan and Padidu from a flash flood on July 11. MDRRMO Assistant Operations chief Daniel Nocos said in a...
DAVAO CITY – Responders are still searching for 11 persons who are still missing three days since a landslide and massive flooding hit three provinces in Mindanao. The number of affected persons in the massive flooding in different parts of the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has now...
As extreme weather becomes more regular in the Philippines, flood management has become one of the defining challenges of urban development. In this context, conversations around resilience must move beyond emergency response and towards a more fundamental question: how can urban spaces be planned...
CEBU CITY – Controversial contractor Sara Discaya was allowed to post bail of P1 million in connection with the malversation charges she is facing over an alleged P96.5-million ghost flood control project in Davao Occidental. Presiding Judge Nelson Leyco of the Regional Trial Court Branch 27 in...
Among the sustainability features integrated into SM’s most-loved malls are disaster-resilient structures designed to strengthen community safety and ensure operational continuity during calamities such as typhoons. As the Philippines remains one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries,...
Is former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan being pressured to implicate Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez in the Ombudsman’s flood control project scam investigation? Lawyer Ade Fajardo, a spokesman of the two-time former House Speaker, says this might...
The Quezon City government strengthened its flood mitigation program on Tuesday, July 7, with the opening of a new multi-purpose basketball court that doubles as a stormwater detention basin in Gloria 2 Subdivision, Barangay Tandang Sora. Mayor Joy Belmonte led the inauguration of the facility...
Nearly a year after challenging those behind anomalous flood control projects to "have some shame" during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year, President Marcos said one thing has become painfully clear: Some of them simply did not. In a press briefing during his official visit to...
President Marcos said the decision on whether former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan would be accepted as a state witness in the government 's investigation into alleged anomalies in flood control projects rests solely with the Office of the Ombudsman....
Former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) secretary Manuel Bonoan is the “most polluted" source of testimony when it comes to the flood control projects corruption scandal. Thus, said the spokesperson of Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez, lawyer Ade Fajardo, amid the...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) tightened oversight of its Philippine infrastructure projects following the multibillion-peso flood-control corruption scandal that shook its host country, despite finding no evidence of wrongdoing involving contracts it finances. In its Anticorruption and...
