Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III and former Department of Budget and Management Procurement Service (DBM-PS) head Christopher Lloyd Lao on Wednesday, August 25, maintained that the transfer of some P42 billion of pandemic response funds flagged by state auditors was above...
Senators on Monday, August 23, assailed the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for again making the motor vehicle inspection system (MVIS) mandatory despite complaints from stakeholders and even President Duterte's order to suspend it. Senate of the Philippines (Senate PRIB) The matter was raised...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday, August 19 said he finds the resignation of Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado worrisome especially since the proposed National Expenditure Program (NEP) of the government for 2022 has not yet been submitted to Congress. Malacanang has confirmed...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday urged Health Secretary Francisco Duque III to assume full responsibility for the supposed deficiencies in his agency’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic funds instead of blaming others for the Department of Health’s (DOH) problems. “Certainly,...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pressed Lloyd Christopher Lao, a former aide of Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, to explain to the Senate the circumstances behind the Department of Health’s (DOH) transfer of P42.4-billion budget to the Department of Budget and Management’s...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III could not help but also suspect irregularities in the Department of Health's (DOH) insistence that face shields should still be used with face masks. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III (Alvin Kasiban/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Sotto reacted to his...
Secretary Francisco Duque III is still not "off the hook" from the reported audit deficiencies of the Department of Health (DOH), even as the state auditors said that they have yet to find that COVID-19 funds were lost to corruption, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Monday, August 16....
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has expressed concern over the resignation of Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Wendel Avisado, ahead of the submission of the proposed 2022 national budget to Congress. Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon in a hearing of the Senate Blue...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pressed for a Senate inquiry into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) discovery of mismanagement in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of P67.32-billion worth of funds for COVID-19 pandemic response, saying the deluge of deficiencies that...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has urged state economic managers to reconsider allocating huge funds for the security sector for next year amid the “skyrocketing” national debt and a growing budget deficit. Drilon said he is dismayed at the negative growth in the social services sector...
Leaders of the Senate believe that the government has enough funds this year to procure more doses of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to include those for minors. Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccines (Keith Bacongco/MANILA BULLETIN) Following Health Secretary Francisco Duque's concurrence that...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima on Thursday expressed her support to Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon’s call for the Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct a special audit of the funds allocated to the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). De Lima said a...
