Hilbay, Tañada: Comelec should probe Go shirts controversy

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:08:27 +0000

Hilbay, Tañada: Comelec should probe Go shirts controversy

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should investigate reports that government funds were used to buy campaign shirts with the image of senatorial aspirant Christopher “Bong” Go. Former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay hit Comelec for focusing more on detecting illegal posters instead of looking into the Bong Go case. “I think at the […]

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DILG chief: Bong Go shirts not bought with gov’t funds

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:13:56 +0000

Eduardo Año

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año denied on Tuesday that campaign shirts from senatorial aspirant Christopher “Bong” Go, which were distributed during the Liga ng mga Barangay Convention held from Feb. 25 to 27 in Pasay, were funded by the government.

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Faustino ‘Inno’ Dy V, LNB national president, issues statement

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:39:41 +0000

Faustino Dy V

Faustino “Inno” Dy V, the national president of the Liga ng mga Barangay (LNB), said on Tuesday that no public funds were used to buy the T-shirts given away during the first LNB National Assembly held from Feb. 25 to 27, 2019, in Pasay, contrary to the allegation of Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano.

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Delayed OK of 2019 Makati budget worries village, SK execs

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:05:11 +0000

Aside from the salary increase of over 10,000 city government workers, the budgets of 33 barangays and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chapters in Makati have become “unintended casualties” of the delayed approval of the city’s 2019 budget of P18.17 billion, a councilor said on Monday.

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