President Duterte has asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to cut the government some slack as it faced challenges while battling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying they should release its report at least at the end of the year. President Duterte (ROEMARI LIMOSNERO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/ MANILA...
President Duterte revealed that he has fired National Electrification Administration (NEA) Administrator Edgardo Masongsong for allegedly allowing electric cooperatives to contribute funds for a party-list campaign in the 2019 elections. President Duterte (ROEMARI LIMOSNERO/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/...
President Duterte issued no threats against the Commission on Audit (COA) after it released an audit report on how the Department of Health (DOH) managed its funds for the pandemic response, Malacañang said Tuesday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a public address from Davao City on August...
A Bureau of Customs (BOC) employee in Biñan, Laguna was arrested in an entrapment operation around eight hours after receiving complaints against him for alleged fixing and extortion. A customs employee in Biñan, Laguna was arrested in an entrapment operation launched by the Anti-Red Tape...
Corruption may be eliminated in government if martial law will be declared to replace all officials in the bureaucracy with new ones, President Duterte said Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his sixth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, 2021. (Screenshot /RTVM) The President, in...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday said senators are poised to scrutinize the programs and projects of at least four government agencies in the upcoming debates on the proposed 2022 national budget. Sotto identified the agencies as the Departments of Health (DOH), Public Works and...
"It's a free country." President Rodrigo Duterte attends Senator Manny Pacquiao’s 38th birthday celebration at the KCC Mall Events & Convention Center in General Santos City on December 17, 2016. (Malacañang) With this statement, Malacañang seemed unperturbed by Senator Manny Pacquiao's...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) highlighted on Wednesday, July 21 what it described as Duterte administration’s efficient fight against corruption and all forms of criminality, adding that the efforts dramatically improved the country’s peace and order situation. In...
President Duterte is not inclined to apologize to Senator Manny Pacquiao over his recent tirade despite a widening rift with the erstwhile political ally. President Rodrigo Duterte raises the hand of Senator Manny Pacquiao during the latter’s courtesy call to the President in Malacañang on...
Unless the Freedom of Information bill is enacted into law and without confirmation from acknowledged international anti-corruption groups, serious doubts and questions will continue to be raised on the Duterte administration’s claim of high achievements in the fight against graft and dishonesty...
Accountants are crucial in the fight against corruption in government, according to President Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte, chairman of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino - Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), delivers a speech during the national assembly of the PDP-Laban in Clark, Pampanga on July 17,...
Corruption has not yet been completely eradicated despite President Duterte's relentless efforts to curb the problem in government, Malacañang admitted Thursday, July 15. President Rodrigo Duterte reads a document while presiding over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging...
