All is not lost as President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. still has the power to ask the bicameral conference committee to reconvene and fix all the contentious items in the final version of the P6.532 trillion national budget for 2025, Sen. Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said. Zubiri...
Some senators on Wednesday, December 11, expressed their sadness over some provisions in the final version of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) which proposes a P6.352-trillion national budget for next year. This, even as the Upper Chamber, led by Senate President Francis...
The bicameral conference committee tasked to reconcile the conflicting provisions of the proposed P6.352-trillion national budget for 2025 have agreed to hold an “open bicam” during the next meeting. Sen. Grace Poe, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, said both the...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House quad-committee (quad-comm) intends to have its partial committee report approved by plenary before the Christmas break, its overall chairman Surigao...
The regional office market across the Philippines saw significant improvement in 1H 2024, driven by ongoing development and the completion of numerous buildings. The Visayas office market, in particular, demonstrated strong growth, led by Iloilo’s addition of 105,200 sqm of office space with Cebu...
Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILABULLETIN) After eight marathon hearings, the House quad-committee (quad-comm) is ready to produce a partial committee report on its findings on the alleged extrajudicial...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the municipality of South Ubian in Tawi-Tawi for its failure to insure with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) its property, plant and equipment (PPE) worth P69.9 million. In its audit report, the COA said that South Ubian's failure to insure...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has reminded local government units (LGUs) to utilize fully their Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (DRRMF) to fulfill the purpose for which the fund was created. The reminder was issued by the COA in its 2023 annual audit report on the municipalty of Leon in...
The failure of the municipality of Calayan in Cagayan to deposit P2.142 million in its local treasury as of Dec. 31, 2023 deprived the local government unit of the immediate use of funds for its priority programs and projects. Worse, the Commission on Audit (COA) said in its 2023 annual report that...
Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have a “plan” in place to attack her during the deliberations for the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) proposed 2025 budget, Vice President Sara Duterte claimed. Vice President Sara Duterte (OVP photo) In the third part of a...
Local government units (LGUs) should charge and collect liquidated damages from suppliers for delays in the deliveries of their purchases, the Commission on Audit (COA) said. It cited the case of Lemery town in Batangas which failed to collect liquidated damages for late deliveries of drugs,...
The number of teaching, teaching-related and non-teaching personnel in the country's public schools dwindled by 38,463 from 1,016,066 in 2022 to 977,603 in 2023. Despite the reduced number of teaching personnel, the Commission on Audit (COA) said its state auditors recorded an increase in the total...
