"Guni-guni lang po 'yan (That's an illusion)." This was how Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque described a lawmaker's observation that a supposed "new variant" of the illegal pork barrel fund was included in the government's proposed P5.024-trillion budget for 2022. Presidential spokesperson Harry...
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque believed there must be other reasons why the Executive Branch decided to cut the budget of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM), the country’s main coronavirus (COVID-19) testing center, for 2022. File photos Roque made the statement after it was...
Former Vice President Jejomar Binay slammed on Monday the government's decision to cut the proposed 2022 budget of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Ex-Vice President Jejomar Binay "In the proposed 2022 budget, PGH was allotted P5.67 billion, lower than the...
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Monday, September 6, vowed to specify the projects which will be funded under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict‘s (NTF-ELCAC) Barangay Development Program (BDP). DILG Secretary Eduardo Año (HoR) DILG, a member...
Why did the Department of Health (DOH) take a budget cut while the Department of Public Work and Highways (DPWH) had a budget increase in the proposed P5-trillion budget for 2022? This was the question in Vice President Leni Robredo's mind as she pointed out the “disconnect” during her radio...
The House Committee on Appropriations quickly terminated on Friday, September 3, its deliberations on the P8.18-billion proposed 2022 budget of the Office of the President (OP) -- a move objected and questioned by opposition lawmakers. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) The committee was only...
Senator Joel Villanueva lamented on Wednesday, September 1, the P15.1 billion supposedly being requested by the Department of Education (DepEd) for producing self-learning modules in 2022. Printed modules remain the most preferred learning delivery modality of parents and learners, according to the...
Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa was designated as one of the vice chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Finance on Tuesday, August 31. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, chairman of the Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, presides on February 12, 2020, a hearing on the proposal to...
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Tuesday, August 31, asked the Department of Health (DOH) to disclose the details of its plan to buy personal protective equipment (PPE) worth P819 million next year. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto (Henzberg Austria/Senate PRIB) The DOH has...
Health workers deserve a raise in their special risk allowances (SRA) and hazard pay in the 2022 national budget, Senator Joel Villanueva said. (Jansen Romero / File Photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, said...
House deputy minority leader and Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Isagani Zarate on Monday, August 30, hit the Duterte administration's supposed lack of transparency on the trillions of pesos in loans and savings it generated these past years. House of Representatives Zarate claimed that these...
Following audit reports that billions of pesos in public funds were unspent, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said government departments and agencies should not ask for budgets they cannot utilize and instead make sure that essential programs get priority funding. Senate President Vicente 'Tito'...
