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.

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.

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.”