The Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) is issuing a Handbook laying down rules and regulations in a bid to make transactions with the key housing agency graft and corruption-free. The Handbook also stipulates procedures on applications for business permits and … Continue reading SHFC TO ISSUE HANDBOOK VS. GRAFT AND CORRUPTION
18 personnel in ‘pastillas’ scam sacked The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Thursday said personnel who were tagged in the ‘pastillas’ bribery scheme will be immediately relieved from their posts as ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte relieves BI execs, … Continue reading DUTERTE ORDERS RELIEF OF IMMIGRATION MEN FOR BRIBERY
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR CORRUPTION There will be no sacred cow in the fight against corruption in government, President Rodrigo Duterte reiterated on Wednesday. Amid his intensified crackdown on rogue government officials and employees, Duterte renewed his vow that he has … Continue reading DUTERTE: No sacred cows in my administration
President Duterte would prove beyond all doubt that he is serious in implementing the law, especially against the high and powerful The case against the Ayalas and Manny Pangilinan, operators of water concessionaires Manila Water and Maynilad, respectively, revolves around … Continue reading HARRY ROQUE: The case against oligarchs
President Rodrigo Duterte slams owners of two private water concessionaires in Metro Manila, the Ayala family and Manny Pangilinan, and calls them as the “big fish” in corruption. “You’re asking, where is the big fish? Where is the corruption, the … Continue reading DUTERTE: AYALA, PANGILINAN THE ‘BIG FISHES’ IN CORRUPTION
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday vehemently denied that he has started his own brand of cronyism in the country during his watch. Duterte made the clarification in a speech delivered in Pigcawayan, Cotabato, as he once again criticized the country’s … Continue reading DUTERTE: I have no crony
Everything that he has started is still constant. It’s still the same. Nothing has changed Braving strong opposition from his critics, President Rodrigo Duterte has kept his promise to protect his fellow Filipinos by continuing his “relentless” campaign against illegal … Continue reading UNCHANGED: Duterte’s relentless war on drugs, corruption, crime
LACSON: PHP16.342 billion for congressmen’s pet projects inserted in budget Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo has assured that President Rodrigo Duterte would wield his veto power to get rid of the funds inserted by lawmakers in the proposed 2020 General Appropriations … Continue reading DUTERTE TO FERRET OUT PORK IN PHP4.1-TRILLION 2020 BUDGET
Malacañang clarified on Tuesday that the executive branch has no hand in the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division’s move to junk the PHP200-billion civil forfeiture case against the family of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. This came after the anti-graft court dismissed … Continue reading Palace denies role in junked forfeiture suit vs. Marcoses
Former President Fidel V. Ramos has defended the contract that his administration signed with Maynilad Water Services Inc. and Manila Water Co. Inc., which President Rodrigo Duterte called “onerous.” The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Saturday (December 13) that Ramos wrote … Continue reading RAMOS LECTURES DUTERTE, DEFENDS WATER DEALS
Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, on Friday said the version of the PHP4.1-trillion 2020 budget approved by the bicameral conference committee and ratified by both Houses of Congress contains no pork and no parked … Continue reading UNGAB: No pork in 2020 budget
