SUSPECTED pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles will file a plunder complaint next week against former Budget secretary Florencio Abad and Senators Franklin...
FORMER President Benigno Aquino III should also be charged for the controversial P72-billion Disbursement Acceleration Program, which was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Bayan...
OMBUDSMAN Conchita Carpio-Morales on Tuesday indicted former Budget secretary Florencio Abad for implementing the Disbursement Acceleration Program involving P72 billion.
She said Abad violated Article...
BUDGET Secretary Florencio Abad said Wednesday he and his allies were prepared for any case they might face in connection with the Disbursement Acceleration...
The incoming Duterte administration should improve the budget absorption of implementing agencies to reach the 3-percent budget deficit ceiling as a percentage of the...
RETIRED lawyers of the Public Attorneys Office filed a damage suit Monday against Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and another official of the Department of...
THE Department of Budget and Management admitted on Wednesday that 84 percent of the P3-trillion budget for 2016 has already been released to agencies...
The Philippine economy likely grew 6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, on robust infrastructure and election spending, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said Thursday.
“We...
Three years after the pork barrel scam was exposed, a militant lawmaker on Monday renewed his call for concerned agencies to prosecute the ‘corrupt’...
Government spending likely increased by up to 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 on robust infrastructure activities, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said...
The government’s infrastructure spending jumped 58 percent to P92.6 billion in the third quarter of the year from P58.8 billion year-on-year, but still fell...
The economy will likely expand 6.9 percent in the last quarter of the year on faster government spending, the Budget Department said Friday.
“We have...
