The Department of Education (DepEd) thanked Sunday, Aug. 15, the Commission on Audit (COA) for recognizing its efforts to comply with the current accounting standards. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd said it was grateful to the COA team that reviewed the financial and operational accounts of...
Despite the Commission on Audit’s (COA) clarification that it is “premature” to conclude that the P67 billion worth of “deficiencies” it found in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of pandemic funds is linked to corruption, Vice President Leni Robredo has flagged the unspent 2020...
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said it has completed over half of the airport projects covered by its memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for the period of 2015 to 2018. (Photo from CAAP Facebook page) The authority bared this detail as...
A member of Japan's gold medal-winning softball team will have her medal replaced by the International Olympic Committee after her hometown mayor nibbled at the memorabilia. This reference file photo shows a glimpse of the USA Men's National Team gold medal on August 7, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (AFP)...
More adverse audit observations were revealed by the Commission on Audit in the handling of the Department of Health of billions of pesos in government funds and in the implementation of its projects even as audit disallowances and suspensions of various transactions have reached over P8.8 billion...
The Commission on Audit has called the attention of the Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez on the 1,526 sacks of rice worth P3.337 million that could not be accounted for in the rice distribution program for households affected by the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) last year. Mayor Richard...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday, August 12 said she is not surprised at the Commission on Audit’s (COA) findings of deficiencies in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of some P67.32-billion worth of COVID-19 funds, saying there has always been strong indications of neglect and...
Team Lakay head coach Mark Sangiao called on for the continuous support for Filipino athletes after four Olympians took home medals in the recently concluded 2020 Tokyo Games. Mark Sangiao (in white shirt) shares a light moment with Team Lakay members (Photo from ONE Championship) Sangiao, a former...
Audit deficiencies in the Department of Health’s (DOH) management of some P67.32 billion in COVID-19 funds have been found by the Commission on Audit (COA) as it warned that such quesitonable handling of funds has triggered doubts into the regularity and propriety of transactions made. DEPARTMENT...
The breach of the COVID-19 health protocols during the heroes’ welcome for the Olympic medalists at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) by government officials is an “exemption,” Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, August 10. BEMEDALLED BOXERS–Irish Magno, Carlo...
Philippines’ Hidilyn Diaz competes in the women’s 55kg weightlifting competition during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo on July 26 2021. (AFP) Education Secretary Leonor Briones on Tuesday, Aug. 10, lauded the gallant efforts of Filipino athletes at the...
Maybe I caught the ‘Olympic Moth,’ er, bug? Watching the closing ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, I found myself unexpectedly tearing up. Perhaps it was the dramatic music, the marching of the Japanese Olympians carrying their flag together with some frontliners—a clear representation...
