Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:14:43 +0000
“Sick and tired” of a “pork” allegations, Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III now wants a reenacted national budget.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 02:49:45 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — There will be no “deadlock” in the 2019 national budget,” Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has assured on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:17:57 +0000
“Institutional amendments” to the proposed 2019 national budget could not be called “pork barrel,” Senator Panfilo Lacson explained Monday.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:37:11 +0000
The Supreme Court has ordered Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to explain the delay in the release of the fourth and final tranche of salary increases for government workers.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:37:37 +0000
How about jailing adult elected public officials – with the mind of a nine-year-old – for pocketing a portion of their “pork”?
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:43:22 +0000
From allies of the former leadership of the House of Representatives, “pork” allocations had been allegedly transferred to lawmakers allied with the incumbent House leadership.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 21:30:19 +0000
The government could have a new budget by the middle of next week depending on how fast the senators could convince their colleagues in the House of Representatives to give up the billions of pesos in pork
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:03:05 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson wants part of the P75 billion that was deleted from the proposed 2019 public works budget to be realigned as he identified slope protection in Northern Luzon as a possible project for the fund. In a statement, Lacson said part of the deleted funds could be used to reinforce slopes and roads […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:26:05 +0000
(Second of three parts) Tongues have been wagging about a notorious Ilocos Norte official nicknamed “Engineer Forty,” who, as the story goes, routinely pockets a 40-percent cut of the cost of infrastructure projects in the district. It’s local lore that seems steeped in reality if one considers what happened in a P10-million flood control project […]
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:01:55 +0000
Senators quizzed the DPWH on Monday over the P75 billion that was added to the agency’s proposed 2019 budget.
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