The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will focus on completing ongoing flood control projects flagged for irregularities before adopting a science-based flood planning approach. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon emphasized that ensuring the proper implementation of projects already under way...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has cut its proposed 2026 budget to over P625 billion, a reduction of about P255 billion after a review that flagged several allocations as questionable. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the department’s original submission of more than P881...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) lifted Tuesday, Sept. 16, the suspension on procurement for locally funded projects, which was initially imposed after some flood control structures were found to be ghost projects. DPWH Secretary Vince B. Dizon directed all implementing offices...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Tuesday, Sept. 16, slammed what he called “super substandard” and incomplete flood control projects in Bauang, La Union that were declared as completed in March this year. Dizon, joined by Baguio City Mayor and Independent...
Three officials of the Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) were dismissed from service and permanently banned from holding government posts over irregularities in flood control projects. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the penalty also...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince B. Dizon on Friday, Sept. 12, vowed to recover public funds allegedly lost to irregularities in flood-control projects, stressing that taxpayers’ money must be returned from erring officials and contractors. Following directives from...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will deploy the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to help investigate thousands of flood control projects flagged for irregularities. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon, in a television interview on Friday, Sept....
Former Bulacan assistant district engineers Brice Ericson Hernandez and Jaypee Mendoza have been ordered dismissed from service for their alleged involvement in irregularities in flood control projects, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) disclosed on Friday, Sept. 12. In a...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Thursday, Sept. 11, filed graft complaints at the Office of the Ombudsman against 20 officials of its Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office and four private contractors over the alleged massive corruption in flood control projects. DPWH...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has temporarily excused all officials and employees from wearing their prescribed office uniforms following reports that personnel were being harassed in public. Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said the suspension, requested by the workers’...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon has requested the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue an Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order (ILBO) for former Undersecretary Roberto R. Bernardo. The name of Bernardo was among those mentioned by former DPWH Bulacan Assistant...
Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Dizon expressed dismay after he discovered that a flood control project in Barangay Tagumpay, Naujan, Oriental Mindoro was damaged barely a year after it was built. “Clearly, hindi siya ghost. Mayroon naman, pero ang dami ko nakikita agad na major na...
