The Marcos administration would spend at least a fifth of its first full-year budget for infrastructure projects, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said on Monday, Aug. 22. In a statement, Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said a total of P1.196- rillion have been allocated for the...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWD) has ordered its officials to implement stricter compliance to laws and policies relative to the imolemwntation of infrastructure projects in high-hazard areas, no build zones, and national protected areas. Photo: DPWH In a memorandum released to...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) led Friday, August 19, the simultaneous groundbreaking of an infrastructure project at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in Laguna worth P485 million, which comprised the construction of four school facilities. Executives of the...
President Marcos has approved the review of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said. At the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines (EJAP) forum on Wednesday, Aug. 17, Socioeconomic...
The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to amend the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law to lure private investments to Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). In a statement on Tuesday, Aug. 16, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said the DOF is planning to...
TACLOBAN CITY - The national government has approved high-impact infrastructure projects that will be implemented in the coming years in Northern Samar province. This includes the construction of Laoang Bridges 2 and 3, which Northern Samar Governor Edwin Ongchuan has been pushing since he became...
Passengers line up at the Trans-Asia Shipping Lines Cebu main ticketing office Chelsea Logistics and its three shipping lines, namely Starlite Ferries, SuperCat, and Trans-Asia, deployed Chelsea Travel, a unified online booking system, which will provide passengers an easy, fast, and stress-free...
The Japanese government has vowed continued support to the Philippine government’s infrastructure push under the Marcos administration, the Department of Finance (DOF) said Friday, Aug. 5. Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said that Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa...
The International Finance Corp. (IFC) said it will assist the Communication and Renewable Energy Infrastructure (CREI) Phils Inc. in funding the construction of shared telecommunications towers across the country. Jean-Marc Arbogast, IFC Philippines country manager, said on Thursday, Aug. 4, that...
A DPWH-Mountain Province District Engineering Office backhoe clears a landslide on the Bontoc-Tocucan Road in Bontoc, Mountain Province. (DPWH-MPDO) BAGUIO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) reported P491.117 million in damage to infrastructure in the Cordillera region...
State-run Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has expressed interest to participate in the infrastructure program that the Marcos administration wants to pursue over the next six years. In a briefing, Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso, GSIS president and general manager, said the pension fund...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Region 6 is seeking the assessment of the structural integrity of infrastructure across Western Visayas following the magnitude-7 earthquake in Northern Luzon Wednesday, July 26. In a July 27 memorandum, OCD-Region 6 director Jose Roberto Nuñez...
