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(PNA file photo) MANILA-The Commission on Elections (Comelec) welcomed the statement of Presidential Rodrigo Roa Duterte that he sees no cheating in the just-concluded national and local polls. "We really are grateful to the President of the Republic for saying that. As we all know since the very beginning, that is the goal of the Comelec to ensure that the election is credible, honest, accurate and clean," Comelec acting spokesman lawyer John Rex Laudiangco said in a press briefing on...

The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board (PPADB) has rejected a multimillion Pula request for approval by the Auditor General for a retroactive payment

Zero-emission bus ZEB technology has reached a stage where the whole-life cost of a ZEB fleet is broadly similar to that of an equivalent internal combustion engine ICE bus fleet.

In the case of individuals and business ventures, certain set standards and procedures are laid out by the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority

Davao Citys P672.5-million spending for COVID-19 flagged in audit May 7, 2021 5:58 PM PHT State auditors flagged Davao Citys P672.5 million worth of spending for its COVID-19 response, spotting multiple violations of audit and documentary rules, including a P7.9-million employment project that found questionable beneficiaries. These were included in the 2020 audit report of the city, released just recently by the Commission on Audit (COA). COA found three major violations in the COVID-19 spendi...

Published May 6, 2021, 9:11 PM The Commission on Audit (COA) has questioned the Davao City government’s assets amounting to more than P9.48 billion or 40 percent of its total assets recorded as of Dec. 31, 2020 as well as its millions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disbursements last year. COA (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Based on the 2020 audit of the Davao City released on Wednesday, May 5, the Davao City’s Property, Plant, and Equipment (PPE) accounts amounting to more than P9.48 bil...

18th February 2021 Silas Motlalekgosi, the former Commissioner of Prisons, was not just retired his sacking, it would appear, emanates from a disputed tender. He had hoped to receive P 3 million and several hundred thousands from a government tender until the levers of power were cocked into action to circumvent his impending windfall. The State was about to purchase his property for P3,700,000.00 (Three million seven hundred thousand Pula but reneged at the eleventh hour.  President Mokgwee...

Published January 19, 2021, 3:34 PM DAVAO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Davao Region has terminated the controversial P1-billion road infrastructure project, which would have widened portions of MacArthur Highway, and built the Ma-a Flyover, after encountering strong resistance from the business sector and environmental groups. DPWH-Davao Spokesperson Dean Ortiz told reporters, in a teleconference on Tuesday, that the agency has already notified Mayor Sara Duterte ...

SunStar File photo January 19, 2021 THE Department of Public Works and Highways-Davao Region (DPWH-Davao) will no longer push through with the fly-over project along McArthur Highway due to opposition from various sectors. DPWH-Davao spokesperson Dean Ortiz told SunStar Davao in a phone interview on Tuesday, January 19, that the road-widening project covering Sandawa Road to Tulip Drive Junction was supposed to be implemented in preparation for the construction of the 1.7-kilometer...