Tag: General Appropriations Act

"Does it need a review?"   To say that this country’s national budget-making system leaves much to be desired is ...

"Am I racist? Am I crazy?"   (Part I) I first heard the term gaslighting some years back when some ...

The House of Representatives Makabayan Bloc has sought the realignment of P641.5 billion earmarked for security services in the proposed ...

"The interest of trapos should never take precedence over this."     It’s a shame President Duterte had to tell ...

"A national budget has three parts"   The chamber of Congress authorized by the Constitution to initiate money measures, the ...

"The OVP has to be given a decent budget to do a respectable check-and-balance job."   The post-World War II ...

Questions over the allocation of the public works budget next year—specifically over Taguig and Camarines Sur getting the lion’s share—have ...

Many of the national athletes and coaches who are under the care of the Philippine Sports Commission are continuously receiving ...

The Department of Public Works and Highways may pursue the construction of the Quezon-to-Bicol expressway separate from San Miguel Corp.’s ...

With around P1.3 billion of its funds redirected back to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to fund the ...