Last Sunday afternoon, Jan. 7, 2023, the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE), through the PICE Quezon City Chapter and its local partner, the PICE Catanduanes Chapter, formally turned over…
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But 72% to be handled by DPWH central, regional offices:
DPWH to implement P3.55-B in infra projects for Catanduanes
Over three-and-a-half billion pesos of infrastructure projects will be implemented by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) this 2024 in Catanduanes but 72 percent of the funding allocation…
Violation of “anti-epal” guidelines cited:
DE Cagomoc in hot water over solon’s tarps in DPWH projects
Personnel of the Department of Public Work, C and Highways (DPWH) scrambled to remove tarpaulins of a provincial politician from government infrastructure projects last week after a taxpayer took District…
Many eyes needed to oversee DPWH projects
Understandably, the members of the Provincial Project Monitoring Committee (PPMC) decried last week’s editorial of the Tribune on the findings of the body’s inspection of the now controversial Batalay seawall…
What’s the use of project monitoring committees?
About two decades ago, members of a project monitoring committee organized by the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) regional office underwent training on how to go about the project inspection.…
Capitol body found nothing wrong with Batalay seawall
Except for an inflated accomplishment report, delayed work and minor deficiencies, a monitoring body has found nothing wrong with a multi-million seawall project in Batalay, Bato, contrary to reports from…
Stealing to get rich, and even richer
What is happening at the DPWH Catanduanes District Engineering Office is just a reflection of what is wrong with local politics. For islanders who have followed the events in this…
DPWH official files appeal with CSC on ‘reassignment’
A ranking official of the DPWH Catanduanes District Engineering Office who was requested to report to the regional office “in the exigency of the service” has filed an appeal with…
RD Eduarte ‘boys’ replace top Catanduanes DPWH officials
The politically motivated rigodon at the DPWH Catanduanes District Engineering Office continues, with one of the two newly appointed officers-in-charge allegedly a nephew of Regional Director Virgilio Eduarte. With former…
Sec. Bonoan okays DPWH-5 request to implement Catanduanes projects
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel M. Bonoan has approved the request of Catanduanes District Engineer Edy Ferdinand Joven to have 32 infrastructure projects of the district…