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(Eagle News)—Sacked Transportation Assistant Secretary Mark Tolentino said on Monday, May 21, that he respects President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to dismiss him. “I am serving at the pleasure of the President,” Tolentino said in a statement. Despite him being dismissed, he said he “will continue to support (Duterte) and to continue to fight against corruption and to protect the interest of Mindanao and its people.” Tolentino was dismissed days after he said in a press […]
(Eagle News)– Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on Thursday, May 18, said she would suspend the conduct of the “Buhay Carinderia” project of the Tourism Promotions Board, and other projects that did not undergo any bidding. In a press conference, she said that she has asked TPB Cesar Montano, whom she met on Wednesday evening, to submit to her a list of all projects. She said she has already written the Commission on Audit for it […]
(Eagle News) — The government is targeting to bid out some P98.32 million-worth of state-owned assets in the first quarter of 2018, even as it reported that it had remitted more than half a billion pesos in the sale of state assets last year. This was according to the Privatization Management Office (PMO) of the Department of Finance (DOF) which reported that disposition of state properties for privatization along with cash dividends and other forms […]
MANILA, Philippines (ENS) — A former Makati councilor testified that he used to receive P300,000 to P500,000 monthly and that he believed the money came from then mayor and now Vice President Jejomar Binay. Ex-Councilor Ernesto Aspillaga told the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee this morning he decided to come clean in the hope that the entire country would be spared from the alleged culture of corruption in Makati. Aspillaga further claimed that as the former […]
