More than a dozen Department of Public Works and Highways employees and at least 20 local contractors are being investigated by the DPWH for their involvement in the allegedly anomalous Burauen-Albueva road project in Leyte for which the government spent about half a billion pesos between 2004 and 2010.
SayinG “your vote is sacred,” Bangon Pilipinas party senatorial candidate Eduardo “Bro. Eddie” Villanueva asked supporters in a “miting de avance” to reject any attempt by traditional politicians to buy their votes.
“Why did they allow elections to be very expensive?” Christian evangelist Eduardo “Bro. Eddie” Villanueva asked. His Bangon Pilipinas party has spent around P20 million, mainly on television and radio advertisements for his run for the Senate in next Monday’s midterm elections.
Nineteen months into the job, Customs Commissioner Rufino Biazon has yet to renovate his Port Area office, which he likens to a “dirty kitchen at home” and where he takes his lunch on a “foldable plastic table.”
The government plans to open up the state infrastructure market to more foreign contractors by 2015, Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson said Tuesday.
With nearly P2 billion worth of smuggled rice seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in the past eight months, Commissioner Rufino Biazon has directed the bureau’s Intelligence Group, as well as its revenue collection districts nationwide, to “increase the tempo of operations” against the illegal importation of the staple.
In a recent interview on GMA 7, John Carlos “JC” de los Reyes, head of the Church-backed party Ang Kapatiran (Brotherhood), was asked by the anchor, “Do you get offended by comments that you’re crazy for running in the 2010 presidential election and, again, in this year’s senatorial polls?”
There are “no more big-time oil smugglers in the country today,” a high Bureau of Customs official declared at a media forum Thursday, claiming that large-scale oil smuggling was a “thing of the past.”
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon is the “right man for the right job” because like President Aquino, Biazon is honest, according to the chairman of the Federation of Philippine Industries (FPI).
Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson warned the public anew about unscrupulous people using his name and that of the Department of Public Works and Highways for non-existent DPWH raffles, sports events and other fake fund-raising activities.
Evangelist Eddie Villanueva on Sunday signed a covenant with over 100 urban poor leaders in Manila’s Smokey Mountain, vowing to champion the cause of the saguiguilid, or the country’s marginalized sectors, by giving them a bigger role in the country’s economic development.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon offers a host of reasons for a P7.83-billion shortfall in targeted revenue collections in the first three months of the year.
Old-timers at the Bureau of Customs jokingly refer to two recent cases of irregularity at Pampanga’s special economic zone as “miracles at Clark.” The term refers to the disappearance of 94 drums of seized diesel fuel that the Department of Finance had planned to sell to raise additional revenue.
