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DepEd told: Return P246 million kept in unauthorized bank accounts
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 8, 2024 - 12:00am
The Commission on Audit has directed the Department of Education to remit to the national treasury a total of P246 million found to have been maintained in “unauthorized, unnecessary and dormant” bank...
Construction of Martial Law Museum to start in December
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 8, 2024 - 12:00am
The Human Rights Violation Victims’ Memorial Commission and the University of the Philippines have agreed to expedite the construction of the Freedom Memorial Museum honoring the victims of human rights...
Donate blood, state workers urged
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 7, 2024 - 12:00am
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) yesterday asked government workers to help save lives by participating in the nationwide bloodletting drive on Sept. 12.
Aurora ex- governor, 6 others get 10 years for graft
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 7, 2024 - 12:00am
The Sandiganbayan has sentenced former Aurora governor Gerardo Noveras and six other former provincial officials to imprisonment of up to 10 years for graft over the anomalous award of contracts for two road repair...
Ex-Albay governor sacked; mayor wife suspended
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed former Albay governor Noel Rosal and suspended his wife, Legazpi City Mayor Carmen Rosal, for allegedly appointing and reassigning several employees after the May 2022 ...
Ombudsman orders ERC chair’s 6-month suspension
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the preventive suspension of Energy Regulatory Commission Chairperson Monalisa Dimalanta amid its ongoing investigation of the administrative charges filed against her by consumer...
Teaching personnel down by 30,000 in 2023 – COA
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 5, 2024 - 12:00am
Public schools nationwide have lost more than 30,000 teachers and teaching-related personnel during the last full term of Vice President Sara Duterte as the secretary of the Department of Education last year, according...
COA: Sara left DepEd with P12 billion disallowances, suspension, charges
by Elizabeth Marcelo - September 4, 2024 - 12:00am
The Commission on Audit has called out the Department of Education over its failure to settle its huge disallowances, suspensions and charges, which stood at P12.3 billion as of the end of 2023, the last full...
Witness list in Duque graft case includes Gordon, Hontiveros
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 31, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Ombudsman has listed Sen. Risa Hontiveros and former senator Richard Gordon as among its witnesses in the graft case it filed before the Sandiganbayan against former health secretary Francisco Duque...
Mountain Province college upgraded to state university
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 30, 2024 - 12:00am
The Commission on Higher Education has approved the conversion of the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College into a state university following a series of evaluations on MPSPC’s enrollment figures, programs,...
OVP to appeal P73 million disallowance of confidential expenses
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 30, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Vice President is set to file an appeal on the Notice of Disallowance issued by the Commission on Audit ordering the return of P73.287 million out of the P125 million it spent as confidential expenses...
Duque, ex-DBM exec face graft raps over COVID-19 funds
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 30, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Ombudsman has formally filed a graft case against former Department of Health secretary Francisco Duque III and former Department of Budget and Management Procurement Service executive director...
OVP secret funds used for tables, chairs, medicine
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 29, 2024 - 12:00am
A year after the P125 million in confidential funds spent by the Office of the Vice President in just 11 days sparked controversy, the Commission on Audit has confirmed irregularities in most of the expenditures,...
Ex-Zamboanga del Sur mayor acquitted of graft
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 29, 2024 - 12:00am
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted a former municipal mayor in Zamboanga del Sur and eight other defendants of graft charges in connection with the allegedly anomalous procurement of a heavy equipment.
Government workers get freebies, discounts in September
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Government workers, including those who have already retired, are entitled to freebies and special discounts in September as part of the month-long celebration of the 124th Philippine Civil Service Anniver...
Masbate Governor, 9 others charged for plunder
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Two radio reporters in Masbate province filed a complaint for plunder against Gov. Antonio Kho and nine other officials for the alleged anomalous awarding of contracts for three road rehabilitation projects worth...
UP professor notes errors in VP Sara’s ‘Isang Kaibigan’
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am
University of the Philippines Sentro ng Wikang Filipino director Jayson Petras has noted some factual inconsistencies and grammatical errors in the children’s book “Isang Kaibigan,” authored by...
Sandigan acquits Jinggoy of bribery over ‘pork’
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 23, 2024 - 12:00am
The Sandiganbayan reversed yesterday its earlier decision sentencing Sen. Jinggoy Estrada to up to 16 years in prison for direct and indirect bribery over the pork barrel scam.
No plagiarism, next book about betrayal – Sara
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 23, 2024 - 12:00am
She wrote the children’s book with ease, based on her own experience, so there was no need to copy from anyone, Vice President Sara Duterte said yesterday as she denied allegations that her work was plagi...
Mandaue City mayor suspended for 1 year
by Elizabeth Marcelo - August 22, 2024 - 12:00am
The Office of the Ombudsman has suspended the mayor of Mandaue City in Cebu for one year in connection with the allegedly anomalous appointment of the acting chief of the city social welfare services office.
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