For those asking, this happened in Mawab, Davao de Oro. The people here are now paying the price of corruption, negligence, and impunity. Despite DPWH Region XI’s denial, the Philippine Anti-Corruption Czar (PACC) confirmed that the collapsed ₱53.3-million flood-control project in Barangay Poblacion is nothing less than a scandal that demands a full investigation. Just…
* For Dedicated Public Service Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, Chairperson of the Senate Committees on Health, on Sports and on Youth, expressed gratitude as he received the Asia’s Modern Leader Award for Dedicated Public Service during the Asia’s Modern Hero Awards 2025 held on September 5 at Okada Manila in Parañaque City. In a video…
The anti- Duterte propagandists some of them pretending to be political analysts are in full throttle to divert the issues surfounding the ghost and substandard flood control projects and the hundreds of billions of pesos paid to at least 15 contractors. They made a big issue of ₱51-billion infrastructure budget for Davao City’s District 1…
At the rate Department of Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon is going, it is not farfetched that his probe into the ghosts and substandard flood control projects has already started in Visayas and Mindanao. Sources who begged not to be identified, disclosed that there are indications that information gathering activities are already ongoing prior to…
The anguish of ordinary Filipinos left to watch their only possessions sink in floodwaters became a central point of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go’s intervention during the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Monday, September 1. To drive the point home, the senator cited a viral video that captured public attention online. The footage showed a…
Jaro Archdiocesan Social Action Center (JASAC) Director Monsignor Meliton Oso criticized the September 1 Senate hearing on alleged flood control anomalies saying “why contractors grilled while lawmakers walk free?” “Why only target contractors? The proponents of these projects—the congressmen and senators—must also be investigated,” Oso said, stressing that no multimillion-peso project could proceed without legislative…
DAVAO CITY – Vice President Sara Duterte confirmed over the weekend that she and her siblings—Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte, acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte, and Veronica Duterte—visited their father, former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, at the detention facility in The Hague, Netherlands. Vice President Duterte said the visit took place after their father…
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has pressed the Senate to prioritize expanded access to free tertiary education. Building on the law enacted during the Duterte Administration, Go as Chair of the Senate Youth Committee, filed a bill to expand it further to reach more students in need. Speaking during the public hearing of the Senate Committee…
Manuel Bonoan can be anything but not as Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways . Under questioning from Sen. Marcoleta he admitted that there were ghost flood control projects which cost taxpayers billions of pesos. He knew who are the crooks behind the grand heist but not until he testified in the…
By Che Palicte DAVAO CITY – The Department of Transportation (DOTr) rolled out the second phase of the “Libreng Sakay” (Free Ride) program here on Friday, this time reintroducing the iconic “love buses.” Last month, the DOTr launched the program’s first phase, deploying eight buses that provide free service along the Lasang to Roxas route…
