Page 2 - Security Plant Complex News Today

Published February 12, 2021, 6:00 AM This is a prologue of my piece last week about the on-going reorganization and restructuring of positions at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). I promised my muted sources last week that like them my lips are sealed up until the approval. Now it can be shared.  Between then and the disclosure, I love the way the work staff at the BSP hash-tagged incoming Deputy Governor Mamerto Tangonon as “the name that cannot be mentioned.”  Reminds me Voldemort,...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 21) – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno and other BSP officials are facing a graft complaint filed with the Ombudmsman over the alleged anomalous awarding of a multi-million-peso contract to a certain firm for the lease of equipment related to the production of national ID cards. Complainant Ricardo Fulgencio IV, chairman of Stop Corruption Organization of the Philippines Inc., alleged that Diokno and fellow respondents “f...

Published January 21, 2021, 4:46 PM  The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday said it continues to support the government’s national ID program as its official printer and will face graft complaints against its officials. In a statement, the BSP said it will address the “complaint filed with the Ombudsman relative to the procurement for the printing of cards for the National ID System” and that it is assuring the public that the BSP officials concerned “will respond in the pro...

Bill filed to institutionalize agreement limiting police, military presence inside UP campuses nationwide A MEASURE that will institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) that limits military and police presence in UP campuses nationwide has been filed in the Senate. Bill No. 2002 will amend Republic Act No. 9500, the University of the Philippines Charter of 2008, to prevent the entry of security forces in the fa...

Published January 14, 2021, 7:30 AM Despite being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will pursue the construction of its 30-hectare new Currency Production Facility (CPF) in New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac this year. BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno, during Wednesday’s Virtual Signing Ceremony for the BSP-Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) Contract of Lease which is a 50 to 75 years of land lease agreement, said they are now ready for the next st...

Published December 21, 2020, 6:00 AM The central bank will print up to 45 million of the national IDs in 2021, almost half of the targeted population, according to a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) official. BSP senior assistant governor and head of the Security Plant Complex (SPC) Dahlia D. Luna said they could produce this much, but stressed it will also depend on the number of registrations that the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) will complete next year. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)...