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TACLOBAN CITY — Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said that it is up to Congress to decide whether or not to allow local executives to continue to receive the controversial confidential and intelligence fund (CIF). Abalos, who was…
A Makabayan lawmaker on Saturday asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to thoroughly investigate the P2.697-billion confidential fund allocations for Vice President Sara Duterte when she was mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022 and demand the…
MANILA, Philippines — House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Partylist Representative France Castro has called on the Commission on Audit (COA) to thoroughly investigate the spending of the P2.697 billion Davao City confidential funds. The said…
Sen. Risa Hontiveros is not backing down on her call for Vice President Sara Duterte to come clean on the disbursement of P125 million in confidential funds that her office received in December 2022. Speaking to journalists in Iligan…
CEBU CITY, Philippines – A Grade 8 teacher from the Dawahon Integrated School in Barangay Dawahon in Bato, Leyte has turned to his social media page to seek government aid for the repair of their damaged classrooms…
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe said Thursday that the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) should prove that it deserves to have the P300 million confidential funds. The lawmaker pointed out the need to study…
MANILA, Philippines — Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros said she’s not begging for Vice President Sara Duterte’s respect, making it clear that she just wants the latter’s accountability especially in handling public funds. In a statement on Thursday,…
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President and concurrent Education Secretary Sara Duterte has again lambasted opposition leaders questioning her proposed confidential funds, calling these criticisms lies. Her fury was particularly directed at Senator Risa Hontiveros and ACT Teachers…
As lawmakers scrambled to keep secret some government agency’s confidential funds, another healthcare workers’ group denounced the lack of funding for the salary increase of nurses and other medical personnel, which it said may help curb understaffing…
MANILA, Philippines — The funds of the Department of Education (DepEd) are better used for addressing shortages in classrooms and armchairs than for spying on students and educators with supposed communist links, The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said…
MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker is considering the filing of an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte. This is in connection with the suspicion that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) may have spent P125…
MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker has asked the Commission on Audit (COA) to investigate the presence of confidential funds (CF) in the Office of the Vice President (OVP) report for 2022 — under incumbent Vice President Sara…
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