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Suarez blasts Alvarez: You’re using Road Board issue to ‘divert attention’

December 18, 2018 admin Budget, diokno, House, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, Philippine news update, road user’s tax, suarez

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:29:38 +0000

House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez has dismissed as a mere “diversion” the claims of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez that the attacks of the House against Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno were due to the control over the road user’s tax.

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Palace: Duterte ‘is keeping’ Diokno amid budget mess allegations

December 17, 2018 admin Budget, diokno, duterte, Latest News Stories, local news, Nation, Palace, Philippine news update

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:59:48 +0000

President Rodrigo Duterte “is keeping” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Malacañang said Tuesday after allegations of budget insertions and questionable allocations were thrown against the Cabinet official.

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‘Insertions’ in 2019 budget? Just cut it, says Sotto

December 12, 2018 admin 2019 budget, Budget, diokno, funds, insertions, Latest News Stories, Nation, National Budget, news, Philippine News, Pork, Pork barrel, Senate, Sotto, Tito Sotto

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:23:38 +0000

Senator Vicente Sotto III offered a solution as he defended Budget Secretary Diokno from claims he was behind the P75 billion insertion in the 2019 budget.

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Infra ‘insertions’ in 2019 budget P75B, not P51.8B — Diokno

December 11, 2018 admin 2019 national budget, Budget, Department of Public Works and Highways, diokno, dpwh, House, Infra, Infrastructure, Latest News Stories, Nation, news, Philippine News

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:44:06 +0000

The controversial infrastructure budget in the 2019 budget was P75 billion, not P51.8 billion, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said.

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CHR opens freedom park to honor human rights defenders

December 9, 2018 admin Commission on Human Rights, diokno, freedom park, Human rights, Latest News Stories, liwasang diokno, Nation

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 05:01:11 +0000

In line with the country’s celebration of Human Rights Day, the CHR opened a freedom park to honor those who fought against human rights violation.

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Economic managers: Suspending TRAIN has less impact vs inflation

June 4, 2018 admin diokno, duterte, Latest News Stories, Nation, tax reform, train law

Suspending the Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law would have a “minimal impact” on mitigating inflation, the government’s economic managers said on Tuesday, as inflation hits five-year high of 4.6 percent in May.

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