Makati City Vice Mayor Romulo “Kid” Peña Jr. and minority bloc councilors on Wednesday, Oct. 1, urged Mayor Nancy Binay to immediately withdraw the appointment of a city official as head of the city government’s procurement department following her alleged involvement in the Department of...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will make all project biddings accessible to the public through livestreaming to promote transparency in its procurement activities. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the initiative will start with the bidding for the multi-billion Bataan-Cavite...
Aiming to strengthen accountability and participatory governance in the country’s schools, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, September 30, officially announced the launch of Project Bukas—a first-of-its-kind transparency initiative that makes education data publicly accessible. In...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta, on Sept. 29, defended his wife after reports surfaced linking her to an insurance company connected to contractors implicated in the multibillion-peso flood control corruption scandal. According to Bilyonaryo 's report, Marcoleta holds a directorship at an insurance...
President Marcos is bent on reinstating the rule of requiring local government units (LGUs) to officially accept national infrastructure projects in their areas before they can be declared completed. Marcos said all LGUs will have to implement the rule again after its removal in the previous...
DAVAO CITY – The provincial government of Davao del Norte announced Friday that it will create a special inspection team to investigate major national projects implemented in the province, including the P400-million Tuganay Bridge project in Carmen town. Earlier, Gov. Edwin Jubahib announced that...
Sen. Erwin Tulfo, on Thursday, Sept. 25, feels that there may be more names that will come up in the continuing probe of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee into the flood control kickback scheme. Tulfo expressed dismay over Department of Public Works and Highways (DWPH) Usec. Robert Bernardo for...
Whether you tuned in to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing or the House infrastructure inquiry on anomalous flood control projects, you’ve probably heard resource persons drop strange words that didn’t quite mean what they seemed. Then there 's Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) found an ally in Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., who challenged the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Tuesday, Sept. 23, to take the place of civil disturbance management (CDM) personnel during protests so they could...
Melbourne, Australia—After the 5th green energy auction (GEA) for 3.3 gigawatts of offshore wind wraps up this year, the Department of Energy (DOE) is gearing up to launch at least four more renewable energy (RE) capacity tenders so it can open wider doors of opportunity for interested local and...
Melbourne, Australia – What does it take for us to disrupt the wind stream in our oceans, especially when so many projects in major markets are delayed, renegotiated, or scrapped before they even set sail? That’s the formidable puzzle that steered debates at the recently concluded APAC Wind...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Saturday, Sept. 20, said that the ongoing revelations in the flood control corruption probe point to even larger anomalies that took place 2016 to 2022 under the Duterte administration. In a radio interview over at Usapang Senado on DWIZ, Sotto...
