Discaya Firm Bags Flood Control Project in Far-Off Isabela town

The award, which carries a cleanly rounded price tag without a single centavo, is one of dozens of contracts in the province showing the same unusual pattern: big-ticket projects repeatedly priced at identical round figures such as P96,500,000 and P49,000,000, according to data obtained from the Sumbong sa Pangulo website.
Sino’ng marahas

Ginugutom ninyo/Ang mga bata,/Pinasasakmal/Sa lamig/At tinutupok/Sa init ng araw/Ang mga walang bubong/at dingding.
Ramon Ang’s world class scam (4)

Clean toilets, nice chairs, new elevators, escalators and other facilities should not be a reason for Ang to crow about inasmuch as passengers are footing the bill and nothing was spent out of the goodness of Ramon Ang’s heart.
Groups slam more ‘squid tactics’ from VP Duterte at budget hearing

In her statement, Renee Co asked Duterte: “How about you? How are you related to Mary Grace Piattos?” mentioning a red-flagged name in the vice-president report of so-called confidential fund recipients.
Kapatid urges probe of BuCor’s budget, increase of PDL medical allowance

“A budget is a moral document, and it’s a moral contradiction to fund food but not medicine,” said Kapatid spokesperson Fides Lim said.
In Quirino Province, One Firm Bags Bulk of Flood Control Projects

This is the same firm behind the controversial rock shed along Kennon Road in Benguet that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. previously criticized as “useless.”
Ramon Ang’s world class scam (3)

He has become the expressway czar on top of being the operator of both NAIA and NMIA, meaning the Marcos regime has a difficult relationship with the idea that competition, rather than monopoly control, keeps the prices of goods and services low.
Huwag silang magulo, magra-rali tayo sa Linggo

Mayroon din namang nangungutya na hindi naman mapagka-isa ang mga magra-rali. Hindi nila nakikita na iisa lang ang mga panawagan, kahit isigaw pa ito sa Bagumbayan o sa EDSA.
Cagayan Mayor Blasts DPWH Defense of ‘Road-To-Nowhere’ Project

“Our refusal to endorse the project was ignored. Our concerns were brushed aside,” the mayor said. Enrile residents have since labeled the unused diversion road project as another costly “bridge-to-nowhere.”
Ramon Ang’s world class scam (2)

It is a lie for Ang’s rah-rah boys and media operators to shout to high heavens that the Filipino people accept the inevitability of higher fees for everything at the NAIA. As one of them wrote, it is “worth the wait.” For the group of Mawis and lawyer Eico Domingo, who has joined the fray along with labor unions, migrant workers’ organizations, the concession agreement is “worth the wake.”