Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pressed for a Senate inquiry into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) discovery of mismanagement in the Department of Health’s (DOH) handling of P67.32-billion worth of funds for COVID-19 pandemic response, saying the deluge of deficiencies that...
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 government is willing to allocate additional funds to sustain the contact tracing program if needed to boost the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. President Rodrigo Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National Nutrition Council (NNC) conducted a dialogue with the local chief executives (LCEs) on Wednesday, August 4, in a bid to enhance the link between the national government and its local counterpart in attaining a sustainable...
The mayors of Metro Manila want Social Amelioration Program (SAP) funds to be directly transferred to local government units (LGUs) for faster distribution to beneficiaries during the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region (NCR) on August 6-20. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is now looking for funds that it can use as source for "ayuda" or cash aid to workers that would be affected by the impending imposition of an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in some parts of the country, including the National Capital Region (NCR)....
As Malacañang announced that the National Capital Region (NCR) will be placed under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to 20, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported Friday, July 31, that it has available stockpiles and standby funds amounting to more...
President Duterte may have been given with the "wrong" information when he was chiding lawmakers for calling out the underspending of COVID-19 response funds. President Duterte and Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III (Malacañang) Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III gave this assumption...
President Duterte snapped at Congress after some lawmakers claimed the government was underspending the funds allotted to the coronavirus response, saying they were only talking about one percent of the money that was actually released. President Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the statement...
The unused scholarship funds amounting to P1.7 billion will be returned to the government coffers, the Science Education Institute (SEI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has assured. (DOST-SEI) DOST-SEI Director Dr. Josette Biyo assured the public that the funds will be remitted...
As typhoon “Fabian” brought monsoon rains that caused flooding in Metro Manila, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported Thursday, July 22, that it has standby funds and available stockpiles amounting to more than P1.72 billion. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The...
Where will President Duterte get the "sacks" of money needed to bankroll the campaign of administration candidates in the 2022 elections? President Rodrigo Duterte attends the National Assembly of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino - Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) in Clark, Pampanga on July 17, 2021....
