The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will make all project biddings accessible to the public through livestreaming to promote transparency in its procurement activities. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the initiative will start with the bidding for the multi-billion Bataan-Cavite...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has adopted a blockchain platform to promote transparency and curb corruption in its multibillion-peso flood control projects. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon and Blockchain Council of the Philippines (BCP) President Donald Patrick Lim signed a...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Tuesday, Sept. 30, ordered the installation of two additional temporary pumps at the Sunog Apog Pumping Station in Manila. The station, which has remained nonfunctional since 2020, has failed to ease flooding in nearby...
ILOILO CITY – A dike built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Iloilo 1st District Engineering Office in Guimbal town recently collapsed to heavy rain from tropical cyclone ‘’Opong.’’ The P18.5-million project in Barangay Nahapay was built in 2016 to protect low-lying...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Department of Public Works and Highways engineer was killed when his car rammed a backhoe in a road construction site here last Saturday, Sept. 27. Police identified the victim as Engr. Farad Abduraup. Investigation disclosed that Fahad was driving his vehicle at high speed on...
State-run Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) has clarified that the handling of the bank accounts of the Department of Public Works and Highways ' (DPWH) contractors did not involve irregularities, countering insinuations that it was complicit in alleged flood control corruption. This...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Monday, September 29 clarified that not all budget insertions can be considered illegal or bad as individual amendments or insertions made by lawmakers during Senate deliberations are part of the regular budget process. Sotto pointed this out afer...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) conducted a follow-up fact-finding mission for the Second San Juanico Bridge. Senior Undersecretary Emil K. Sadain said the bridge will complement major road projects in Eastern Visayas,...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Friday, Sept. 26, directed the North Manila District Engineering Office to explain alleged irregularities at the Sunog Apog Pumping Station Flood Control Project. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon issued the show-cause order after inspecting the site...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has ordered the preventive suspension of six officials of Baguio City District Engineering Office (DEO) over alleged rigging and manipulation of infrastructure project bids. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon, in a memorandum dated Friday, Sept. 26, said...
DAVAO CITY – The mayor of the remote coastal town of Jose Abad Santos in Davao Occidental, where a P96-million ghost flood control project was discovered, has hinted that there are still some alleged anomalous infrastructure projects in his town. “Marami pa pong ibang ghost at substandard...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported on Friday, Sept. 26, that 14 national road sections remain closed and five others have limited access due to the combined effects of Tropical Cyclones “Mirasol,” “Nando,” “Opong,” and the southwest monsoon (habagat). The...
