By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter /INQUIRER.net / September 14, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Because of President Rodrigo Duterte’s continued ranting against senators, the Senate blue ribbon committee will dig even deeper into the “connections” that led small firm Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. to corner over P8.6 billion in government deals in 2020. “If he [Duterte]…
Sep 11, 2021, Lian Buan MANILA, Philippines ‘Governance without direction kills. Corruption kills. The poor pay for the corruption of the powerful,’ says the Metropolitan Archbishops of Northern Luzon In a strongly worded pastoral message, Catholic archbishops in Northern Luzon called for an investigation into allegations of corruption in the Duterte government’s pandemic spending. “We…
COLUMN, Virtual Reality posted September 03, 2021 by Tony Lopez, Manila Standard It is now abundantly clear: Rodrigo Roa Duterte has been running a Davao Mafia all these years. It is cronyism multiplied a thousand times. The cabal gobbled up choice government contracts of all kinds—the bigger, the better, the more profitable. We are talking about…
Aug 28, 2021 Pia Ranada MANILA, Philippines [EXCLUSIVE] Securities and Exchange Commission documents show how Yang is connected to the embattled Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation, supplier of pandemic supplies flagged by auditors to be overpriced (Done in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project) The Philippine government’s biggest supplier of medical goods during the…
Jul 5, 2021, Pia Ranada, Rappler.com MANILA, Philippines The former senator promises to file a complaint of plunder against Go and President Rodrigo Duterte after the Duterte presidency ormer senator Antonio Trillanes IV accused Senator Bong Go of plunder over P6.6-billion worth of road widening and concreting projects awarded to companies owned or managed by…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net / July 03, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Senator Manny Pacquiao on Saturday claimed that several government transactions were marred by corruption, mentioning, in particular, the distribution of social amelioration program (SAP) subsidies through the use of e-wallets. Pacquiao said in a briefing that Starpay, an e-wallet application used…
By Mong Palatino October 21, 2020, The Diplomat Despite allegations of corruption and his ineptitude in handling the COVID-19 crisis, the Philippine leader’s popularity continues to climb. The recent news that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte currently enjoys a 91 percent approval rating, even as his government battles a series of scandals, continues to astound many…
By: Tina G. Santos – Reporter/ Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos not to forget the lessons of martial law, which was declared by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos 48 years ago, amid charges that the Marcoses are bent on revising history to erode its…