Infra gets lion’s share of ‘17 budget
THE Duterte administration on Monday submitted a P3.35 trillion budget proposal for 2017 to Congress to fund its expanded spending ...
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Budget before Cha-Cha–Alvarez
THE House of Representatives will prioritize the passage of the 2017 national budget over efforts to rewrite the 1987 Constitution, ...
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Alvarez: Budget ‘pork-free’
Incoming House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday promised to make the 2017 national budget ‘pork-free.’ Alvarez, representative of Davao del ...
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PNoy’s legacies of budget and pension time bombs
We were so engrossed in analyzing every improbable promise and black propaganda accusation by and against every presidential candidate that ...
Read moreBudget scheme expands, covers 42,000 barangays
Bottom-UP Budgeting, the government program that institutionalized people’s participation in the budget process, will be expanded next year to cover ...
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A questionable budget release
IF YOU are not concerned about a newspaper report that says 90 percent of the P3-trillion budget was effectively released ...
Read moreSenate ratifies budget; House won’t follow suit
THE Senate ratified on Monday the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P3.002- trillion national budget for 2016 but ...
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House into overdrive, OKs P3-trillion budget
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said the bill containing the proposed P3.002-trillion national budget for 2016 will be signed into ...
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