Akbayan Partylist has called for the passage of two budgetary reform measures that safeguard public funds against misuse of the national budget and ensure transparency in government. The partylist was referring to the Savings and Augmentation Bill (HB 11389) and the Freedom of Information Act (HB...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Santi San Juan/MANILA BULLETIN) Ranking members of the House of Representatives have disputed the claims of Vice President Sara Duterte that the ongoing probe into her alleged misuse of public funds is “politically...
Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability is in the process of verifying information that it was Vice President Sara Duterte who signed the travel...
Public funds will serve its purpose under the new roadmap the government has put in place, President Marcos said. In receiving the Public Financial Management (PFM) Reforms Roadmap 2024-2028, Marcos has assured the public through the roadmap, public funds will be used to expand social services,...
Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) DAVAO CITY — Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua, who was recently appointed as the head of the House of Representatives panel that oversees the misuse of...
Former Office of the Vice President (OVP) spokesman and lawyer Barry Gutierrez raised legal and ethical questions in using public funds for the publication and distribution of Vice President Sara Duterte’s self-authored book, “Isang Kaibigan.” Vice President Sara Duterte and her...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has declared if House Speaker Martin Romualdez decides to run for President, he would demand that an audit be made of how the fourth highest ranking official has spent public funds. (From left) Former president Rodrigo Duterte and House Speaker Martin Romualdez...
Senate deputy minority leader Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, September 13, scored Ombudsman Samuel Martires’ proposal for Congress to remove provisions in the annual national budget that require publication of Commission on Audit (COA) reports on government agencies. “Good...
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV agreed with Vice President Leni Robredo to enforce a “full disclosure policy” in government if she wins the presidency because this will save billions of pesos in public funds. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Vice President Leni Robredo (VPLR Media Bureau)...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday urged state prosecutors and other investigating agencies to immediately look into the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report on the purported P1.44-trillion worth of infrastructure projects that are delayed, abandoned and/or left idle. “It is...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday criticized the government over the P1.44-trillion worth of infrastructure projects that the Commission on Audit (COA) had earlier flagged. COA has called out 17 government agencies over delayed, abandoned and idle infrastructure projects amounting...
Professors, researchers, university administrators and education professionals from leading universities nationwide on Saturday, Nov. 13, commended the Senate for defunding the National Task Force To End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) The Academics Unite...
