Tag: Department of Budget and Management

JUST IN: Duterte names former Davao City admin as new Budget secretary

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has named former  Davao City administrator Wendel Avisado as the new Department of Budget and Management secretary. Avisado takes the place of Janet Abuel, who had been named officer-in-charge of the department after then-Budget Secretary Ben Diokno was named governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said Avisado will take the helm of the DBM in an acting capacity. Avisado, lawyer, was the city administrator from 2004 […]

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Janet Abuel named DBM acting secretary

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Janet Abuel as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Abuel’s appointment was announced at the start of the Cabinet meeting on Monday, April 1. Abuel was designated officer in charge of the DBM on March 5 after Benjamin Diokno was named governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. This was following the death of Nestor Espenilla after a battle with tongue […]

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DBM confident PHL economy “in good hands” with Diokno at helm of Central Bank, Monetary Board

(Eagle News) — The Department of Budget and Management on Tuesday, March 5, expressed confidence the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine economy in general were “in good hands” with Benjamin Diokno at the helm of the BSP and the Monetary Board. In a statement, the DBM said “Secretary Ben, a lifelong public servant and economics professor,” after all, “embodies the decisive leadership, professional experience, and technical competence needed in a central bank governor.” […]

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JUST IN: Duterte names Budget undersecretary Abuel as DBM officer-in-charge

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has named a Budget undersecretary as officer-in-charge of the Department of Budget and Management. Duterte named Janet Abuel at the helm of the DBM following the appointment of then-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno as Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor. Diokno replaced Nestor Espenilla, who passed away after fighting tongue cancer, in February. Diokno will serve Espenilla’s remaining term until 2023. Abuel, a bar topnotcher, finished her Masters of Public Administration […]

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Andaya accuses Diokno of trying to bribe House into “shut(ting) up” about P75-billion “insertion” in proposed national budget

(Eagle News) — House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Friday, Feb. 8, accused Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno of trying to”bribe” the House of Representatives into “shut(ting) up” about the P75-billion “insertion” in the proposed national budget. According to Andaya, the “P40-billion bribe” was offered during a meeting with Diokno, Budget Undersecretary Mina Pangandaman and a friend he did not identify. He said it was Pangandaman who invited him to the meeting, and that […]

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Andaya wants Diokno cited in contempt for snubbing hearing anew; DBM chief says he wasn’t given proper notice

(Eagle News) — House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr.  wants Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno cited in contempt for his failure to appear anew in the panel’s hearing on Friday, Feb. 8, on alleged anomalies in the proposed national budget for 2019. Andaya said Diokno should be held liable for snubbing the hearing and those before that even after the Budget chief said “there was no proper notice and not enough time to allow him […]

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Diokno approves release of fourth tranche of pay hike for LGU, GOCC workers

(Eagle News) — Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno has allowed the release of the fourth tranche of increase of salaries of some government workers. House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr., who made the revelation in a statement, said, however, that the order applies only to workers in local government units and in government-owned and -controlled corporations based on Local Budget Circular No. 118 and Corporate Budget Circular No. 23 signed by Diokno last Tuesday. “Now, (Diokno) realizes […]

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DBM Sec. Diokno, tanggap ang inihaing petisyon sa SC para sa dagdag-sahod ng gov’t workers

Tinanggap ni Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno ang inihaing mandamus petition sa Korte Suprema kaugnay sa paglalabas ng ika-apat na tranche ng salary hike ng gobyerno. Ayon sa kalihim, mainam aniya ito para maresolba na ang nasabing usapin. Tugon ito ng kalihim matapos maghain si House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr., sa Supreme Court ng petition for mandamus para utusan ang DBM na ibigay na ang ang salary hike para sa mga kawani ng gobyerno. Gayunpaman, […]

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DBM’s Diokno warns of “detrimental” impact, economic slowdown if Congress fails to pass 2019 nat’l budget

  (Eagle News) – Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno warned of “detrimental” effects to the country’s economy in case Congress fails to approve the proposed 2019 national budget of PHP3.757-trillion. According to Department of Budget and Media estimates, a reenacted budget would reduce disbursements by around PhP220 billion by 2019. Diokno said the growth impact of such a reduction would be “detrimental” and could lead to an economic slowdown. “While ‘the sky will not fall down’ […]

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House adopts reso urging Duterte to reconsider appointment of Diokno as Budget secretary

Diokno unfazed; questions integrity of his accusers  (Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Wednesday, Dec. 12, adopted a resolution urging President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his appointment of Ben Diokno as Budget secretary. House Resolution 2365, authored by Minority Leader Danilo Suarez, was adopted after Diokno was grilled by House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya for what the lawmaker said were “insertions” amounting to  billions in infrastructure funds in the proposed 2019 national budget […]

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Senator Aquino questions cut in DepEd budget for construction of classrooms in 2019

(Eagle News) — Senator Bam Aquino questioned what he said was the Department of Budget and Management’s move to cut the Department of Education’s budget for the construction of classrooms. According to Aquino, from the original P116 billion, this was slashed to “just” P10.2 billion. He said the new amount can only allow for the construction of 4,000 classrooms, a far cry from the 47,000 classrooms the DepEd could have supposedly built for 2019 with the […]

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Abad denies road scam allegations; says DBM “has nothing to do with negotiations, approval” of right of way claims

(Eagle News) — Former Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad on Friday denied he had anything to do with a supposed P8.7-billion road scam, noting that the Department of Budget and Management, in the first place, “has nothing to do with the negotiations and approval of right of way claims.” “The expertise and function for that lies with the (Department of Public Works and Highways),” Abad, who held the position during President Benigno Aquino III’s time, […]

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