P42M released to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission
By Ronnel W. Domingo
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
The government is shoring up its peace-building efforts in Mindanao with the release of P42 million to the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC).
Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad clarified on Monday that far from experiencing budget cuts this year, state colleges and universities received a 44-percent hike to get a total of P37.1 billion.
President Benigno Aquino III is funneling P20 billion into projects to be identified by mayors belonging to the country’s most indigent provinces as part of this administration’s bid to fast-track the escape of poor families from poverty.
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has come out to clear the air after being put in the hot seat by findings of the 2011 audit report on the agency.
Liberal Party stalwart and Surigao del Norte Representative Francisco Matugas has been charged with plunder before the Ombudsman for allegedly misusing his pork barrel funds by funneling it as the “intelligence fund” of some 15 town officials in the run-up to the 2010 elections.
Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has expressed fears the reproductive health (RH) law may not be effectively implemented if it is not be given the proper appropriation in the national budget.
A group calling for the passage of the land use bill has asked senators to make laws and stop bickering over issues that can be discussed later.
The Philippine National Police has failed to fully implement adequate procedures to check the status of 59,380 police pensioners, raising fears that unqualified or fake pensioners will continue to cash out pensions and that legitimate pensioners are eased out, a 2011 Commission on Audit report on the agency states.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile apparently planned to give all senators at least the second tranche of additional maintenance and other operating expenditures later withheld from four colleagues he did not see eye to eye with.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue is questioning the decision of the Court of Tax Appeals that cleared actress Judy Ann “Juday” Santos of tax deficiency.
Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago now wants Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile to “answer for the crime of plunder” and explain his role in the disappearance of private individuals during martial law as a follow up challenge to their spat over the selective distribution of additional cash allotments for “maintenance” to a select group of senators.
A MAN died after he was hit by a van while crossing the road in barangay Banilad, Cebu City.
As he prepares to leave the Senate, Sen. Panfilo Lacson decides once again to return to the national treasury—and for the last time—his pork barrel fund in the amount of P200 million.
