DE Joven hides behind the FOI program

Section 7. The right of the people to information on matters of public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to documents and papers pertaining to official acts,…

DHSUD asks public to address inquiries on housing project thru govt channels only

QUEZON CITY, (PIA) — Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) is reminding the public to inquire details of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr.’s Pambansang Pabahay para sa…

A wish for the New Year

As if the last two weeks of 2022 were not bad enough, with scores dead or missing due to floods and rough seas (including nine from Catandpuanes), the country suffered…

A most welcome move from DPWH, but…

For most people, it has become second nature not to expect too much from the Department of Public Works and Highways, often tagged by surveys as the most corrupt government…

Cong. Rodriguez presents 1st 100-days accomplishment

Neophyte congressman Eulogio Rodriguez presented to his constituents last week his accomplishments for the first 100 days in office, based on the missions he gave himself during the election campaign.…

An idiotic and irrelevant requirement at the BIR

Government offices headed by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) are celebrating the will spearhead the 122nd Anniversary of the Philippine Civil Service this September, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 1050,…

Even if PAGASA, JICA agree on 2023 start:

Replacement of Baras Doppler radar system would take two years to finish

Negotiations are underway between representatives of the nation’s weather agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) over funding of the replacement of the Doppler radar station at Buenavista, Baras…

Waiting for long-overdue change

Romeo Olino and Rene Subion, the two men who survived three days of being stranded in the middle of Maqueda Channel, are like the rest of the marginal fisherman in…

Work on Coast Guard base on Panay island to resume soon

It will be the Philippine Coast Guard who will proceed with the construction of its base at the site of the former US Long-Range Navigation (LORAN) Station on the northwestern…

LORAN ‘owners’ would have to go to court to press claim

With the LORAN lot already titled in the name of the Philippine Coast Guard, the heirs of the Villena family claiming the land would have to file suit with the…