DOH gets P10 billion budget cut for 2023
House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto has expressed his disappointment over the reduction of P10 billion in the proposed budget for the Department of Health (DOH) for the fiscal year 2024. …
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DBM owes P6 billion to state and local universities, colleges: Escudero
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) owes state universities and colleges (SUCs) and local universities and colleges (LUCs) P6 billion for the academic year 2022-2023, a senator said this …
Government will borrow P1.6 trillion in addition to 2023 budget
The government will borrow P1.6 trillion to build the proposed P5.268 trillion 2023 national budget. This is what Senator Sonny Angara, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, said after …
Carpio wants BIR to charge Marcos family over unpaid P203-B estate tax
Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, a retired Supreme Court (SC) justice, called on the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to file criminal charges against the Marcos family for “willfully” refusing …
Gov’t will pay OWWA’s P241-M debt to quarantine hotels
Malacañang assured that the government would pay the P241 million debt of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to some hotels that provided quarantine accommodations to returning overseas Filipino workers (OFW). …
Red Cross halts lab construction due to PhilHealth’s unsettled P1.1-B debt
Philippine Red Cross (PRC) would hold its “construction of new provincial molecular laboratories” in several provinces after the Philippine Health Insurance Corp (PhilHealth) failed to its P1.1-billion debt, PRC chairman …
Bramovich: What is Duterte’s problem with the USA? Or is he just high?
President Duterte has expressed shock and horror at the USA’s Millennium Challenge Corp’s decision to withhold aid funding, due to concerns over his bloody war on drugs. (See my recent article on …