Former Office of the Vice President (OVP) spokesman Barry Gutierrez urged Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte to withdraw her two offices' requests for confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) and allow Congress to realign the intended allocations to other sectors. (From left)...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Saturday, Sept. 9, that the Senate Oversight Committee on confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) is planning to review the memorandum circular on CIFs to come up with a more clean-cut set of guidelines on its utilization. Zubiri was referring to the...
The Senate on Wednesday, September 6 convened the select oversight hearing on the confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), programs and activities in a bid to address questions and criticisms regarding the huge amount of CIF allocations given to key government agencies under the proposed...
Malacañang has defended the decision of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to release the P221.424-million in confidential funds to the office of Vice President Sara Duterte last year, saying the President saw the need to release the amount. Vice President Sara Duterte (Ali Vicoy) Marcos,...
Vice President Sara Duterte thanked a Senate panel for approving the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) ₱2.36-billion proposed budget for 2024, including the controversial ₱500 million for confidential funds, even as opposition senators tried to question her. Vice President and Education...
There is something fundamentally wrong if the Office of the Vice President is guaranteed a higher confidential and intelligence fund (CIF) over the Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and other government agencies whose primary task includes...
“There was nothing irregular or unauthorized” on the use of the 2022 confidential funds (CF) as the Office of the Vice President (OVP) has already complied with the required accomplishment reports for them, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte said on Wednesday, Aug. 30. (From...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Vice President and concurrent Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte has insisted before congressmen that the agency has "a purpose and a need for confidential funds". Duterte made this remark Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 30...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Commission on Audit (COA) Chairman Gamaliel Cordoba said it's a good idea to update the joint circular used to scrutinize the utilization of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) by government agencies. Cordoba made this remark...
A group of education workers on Tuesday, Aug. 8, urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to prioritize initiatives that would address the learning crisis in the education sector. DepEd file photo This after the DepEd requested P150 million in confidential funds under its proposed 2024 budget of...
Vice President Sara Duterte shrugged off the comments made by House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro against the P500-million confidential funds that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) requested, insisting instead that the matter must be left to Congress....
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Monday, Aug. 7, gave an overview of why the Department of Education (DepEd) needs a P150-million confidential fund under the 2024 national budget. Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte during the National Brigada Eskwela kick-off...
