Half a million pesos for each of the country’s town for education. Sen. Francis Escudero has pledged to deliver this out of his pork barrel funds to help fill gaps in the country’s educational system. The total package for educational assistance for each of the country’s 1,494 municipalities would reach P747 million, about [...]
Health and social services, infrastructure projects, jobs creation and free education for the poor were among the priorities given by five congressional aspirants who attended last week’s Mega Cebu Candidates Forum.
The Office of the Ombudsman has filed anew a P20-million graft case against former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Director General and now Iloilo Rep. Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco Jr. and his wife, former Iloilo Rep. Judy Syjuco.
The Sandiganbayan on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Laguna Lake Development Authority general manager Nereus Acosta and his mother, Soccoro, in connection with the perjury charge filed against them by the Office of the Ombudsman.
Administration senatorial candidate Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara on Tuesday pledged to allocate P100 million—or half of the annual pork barrel entitlement of senators—for the construction of classrooms and the upgrading of equipment in the public schools, particularly in the provinces.
Caloocan City mayor and congressional candidate Enrico “Recom” Echiverri is questioning in court a Commission on Elections resolution that he claims allows lawmakers to use pork barrel funds to buy votes.
Senator Francis Escudero wants all senators to be more transparent in the use of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) more commonly known as “Pork Barrel”.
It sounds like funding for a drinking session but it is what the latest government antipoverty program is called.
The use of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or “pork barrel” during the election campaign period has been allowed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) provided that it will not be used for campaign-related activities.
The foundation that received pork barrel funds from Nueva Vizcaya Rep. Carlos Padilla could no longer be located, but it left a trace of alleged anomalies in the disbursement of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of lawmakers.
ACTING Cebu Gov. Agnes Magpale ordered a review of all Special Allotment Release Orders (SARO) covering the P55 million funds for Dumanjug town taken from the pork barrel of Rep. Pablo Garcia of Cebu’s 2nd district.
Manila still has millions of pesos in “pork barrel” funds that have remained untapped, according to a 2011 report of the Commission on Audit (COA).
On grimy post office steps, flanked by cartoons and plastic bottles, scavenger “Raul” prepared Sunday breakfast: green mangoes plus salt. Kain tayo, sir, he called when we passed to mail a letter. “Dine with me.”
