The Muntinlupa City government took eighth place among cities in the Philippines in collection efficiency of local revenues in 2021. The Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF) under the Department of Finance (DOF) announced the top performing provinces, cities, and municipalities based on...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said that the implementation of big-ticket infrastructure projects should remain under the national government despite the Mandanas ruling. Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangadaman said in an interview with reporters that the national government is...
THE Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue. Frogs and fishes are not “scientific solutions” to combat dengue-carrying mosquitoes, three government agencies said on Sunday, July 24. The departments of Health (DOH), Interior and Local Government (DILG), and Environment and Natural Resources...
The Department of Local and Interior Government (DILG) left P577,053,225.99 or 14.29 percent worth of Covid-19 response funds unused out of a total allotment of P4,037,866,230.53, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. The COA and DILG seals, respectively In an annual audit released by the state...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Cebu Chapter, in coordination with the Bureau of Fire Protection and Local Government Unit, immediately dispatched its two ambulance units that treated three patients with minor injuries in a fire at a residential area in Sitio Tuburan, Barangay Punta Princesa, Cebu...
Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III Monday, June 13 said policies on how to contain Covid-19 pandemic should be science-based and science-driven. Senate President Tito Sotto (Photo from Senate President Tito Sotto's office) Sotto stressed this as Cebu officials made a decision making...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said he is upbeat that prosperous municipalities can now easily apply for cityhood with the new law that eases requirements converting municipalities to component cities. Lacson said Republic Act 11683, which lapsed into law on April 10, 2022, is...
DOH/MB Voters who are found exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19 should be referred to their respective local government units (LGUs) after they cast their votes in the upcoming May 9 elections, the Department of Health (DOH) asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec). DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario...
Should he win in the upcoming May 2022 senatorial race, Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero said he will pursue amendments to the Local Government Code of 1991 to give local government units (LGUs) more power and autonomy. The law, which has been substantially unchanged for 31 years,...
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III has appointed 958 local treasury executives in the past five years to improve the fiscal position of the local government units (LGUs). In a statement released by the Department of Finance (DOF) on Wednesday, April 13, it said that Dominguez’s...
Updating the country’s property valuation system is the correct way to impose a so-called “wealth tax” that local government units (LGUs) can impose on affluent individuals, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said on Monday, April 11, that LGUs can...
Senatorial candidate and Sorsogon Governor Francis “Chiz” Escudero said he would pursue the establishment of a shelter for the elderly and abandoned members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in every local government unit (LGU) across the country should he win a...
