More fun soon at ‘white rocks’
To provide better access for tourists, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is building a road leading to the popular Kapurpurawan white rock formation in Burgos, Ilocos Sur.
To provide better access for tourists, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is building a road leading to the popular Kapurpurawan white rock formation in Burgos, Ilocos Sur.
He went to Cavite to sing the virtues of the administration’s local candidates and his handpicked senatorial candidates.
Taking advantage of the relatively low number of vehicles plying the streets of Metro Manila during Holy Week, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will undertake road repairs starting midnight of Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday in various parts of the Metro, including portions of the 23-kilometer Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa), the country’s busiest thoroughfare.
While admitting that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was handicapped by “negative perceptions and the stigma of being one of the most corrupt government agencies,” Secretary Rogelio Singson nevertheless stressed the DPWH was “slowly gaining ground in its paradigm shift to elevate the essence of public service.”
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will push through with the “repair and strengthening” of the heavily damaged seawall behind the Coconut Palace and Folk Arts Theater in the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex despite real estate firm Manila Goldcoast Development Corp.’s (MGDC) plan to turn a 148-hectare portion of Manila Bay into a commercial, business, residential and tourism hub to be called “Solar City.”
The Department of Public Works and Highways plans to spend P55.5 billion in the next four years on infrastructure projects in support of the Department of Tourism’s “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” campaign.
Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Monday expressed surprise the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was removing illegally placed campaign materials from public infrastructure throughout the country—or at least trying to.
Easier said than done. The head of the Department of Public Works and Highways-Southern Tagalog office was referring to the enforcement of the Commission on Elections Resolution No. 9858, which deputized the DPWH to assist the poll body in “removing all unlawful election materials nationwide.”
We were advised that the Department of Public Works and Highways will start a series of road repairs on major Metro Manila arteries starting this weekend. Expect heavy traffic along major roads in Manila, Quezon City and Pasay City.
Seven houses to 13 squatter families are blocking and delaying further the completion of a project involving a 300-meter portion of the north extension of Circumferential Road 5, or C-5, in Quezon City, according to the head of the Department of Public Works and Highways regional office in Metro Manila.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is joining the crackdown of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against all illegally placed election propaganda throughout the country as the campaign season heats up.
Come May, the 23 kilometer-long stretch of Edsa —the busiest thoroughfare in Metro Manila—is no longer in danger of turning into the country’s biggest parking lot.
When major road improvements on the 23-kilometer-long Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) start next May, the patience of motorists and commuters using the country’s busiest thoroughfare will be tested.
