Unspent budget for flood-control projects under the 2025 national budget will be reallocated to other priority sectors such as health and education, President Marcos said. This as he admitted that P225 billion of the P350 billion allotted for flood control in the 2025 national budget will not be...
President Marcos said he will announce the composition and mandate of the independent commission tasked to investigate flood control anomalies within the next 24 hours. "Within the next 48 hours, I will already announce the powers that we are granting to the independent commission and the members...
DAVAO CITY – Davao City first district Rep. Paolo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 9, slammed the House infrastructure committee for diverting their investigation on anomalous flood control projects to the P51-billion infrastructure allocation for his district during the term of his father former...
The trail of discoveries tied to the alleged flood control corruption appears far from over. Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson on Tuesday, Sept. 9, bared fresh revelations of massive corruption in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), linking officials and...
Senator Joel Villanueva on Tuesday, September 9 reiterated he has no flood control projects, denying a former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) assistant district engineer’s accusation he had a P600-million worth of this under the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA). Villanueva...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Tuesday, Sept. 9, confirmed that another project engineer will be dismissed for alleged involvement in three defective flood control projects in Bulacan worth a combined ₱247 million. Dizon said the Commission on Audit (COA)...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada denied on Tuesday, September 9 allegations made by a former Bulacan assistant district engineer that he is involved in the anomalous infrastructure projects now hounding the country. This, after Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) assistant district...
"Receipts" and not say-so, will be the name of the game in Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson 's investigation as incoming chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Lacson said this as he is set to lead the probe into substandard and ghost flood control projects. In an...
More than 100 suspected anomalous projects nationwide have emerged just a week after the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) launched its flood control investigation, DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Dizon said the volume of reports underscores the agency’s...
Sen. Paolo “Bam” Aquino IV said he is confident that his proposed Classroom-Building Acceleration Program (CAP) Act, or Senate Bill No. 121, will help speed up the construction of classrooms in public schools and significantly reduce the backlog. If enacted into law, SB No. 121, Aquino said,...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson will replace Senator Rodante Marcoleta as the chairperson of the premier Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. This was confirmed by newly-elected Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III in a Viber message late Monday night, Aug. 8, after he was asked...
President Marcos does not see any lawmaker inhibiting from the ongoing investigations of flood control anomalies as he believes that no politician—either from the House of Representatives or Senate—would admit their involvement in the flood control mess. In his latest podcast, Marcos was asked...
