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Government should create a “digital map” of government projects and programs that will be implemented next year, to include “livestreaming” of big-ticket public works projects. “Projects should be geo-tagged, and there should be an app in which the status of a project is just a...

Government should end the scourge of “artificial spending” by preventing the transfer of allotments from one agency to another in order to cover up the failure to spend.Ang nangyayari kasi ngayon, para lang masabi na “obligated” na ang allotment ay pinapasa ito sa ibang ahensya....

While every literature states that P4.1 trillion is the national budget for 2020, in reality, it is not. The real amount is P4,316.3 trillion, P216.3 billion higher than what is commonly stated. The P216.3 billion represents the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). While the release...

DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of...

The Senate should conduct its own post-earthquake assessment – to find out if the Calamity Fund in this year’s budget and the one for next year is enough to help the people and places hit by the recent Southern Mindanao earthquakes. We should conduct an inventory of funds. There...

While others sought comfort in numbers, Nene drew strength from his convictions. He was a maverick who could not resist a good fight, many of which by his lonesome, for he believed that one man with courage was enough to make a majority. And he paid dearly for being true to his...

7,107 public health nurses ang nangangambang mawalan ng trabaho sa susunod na taon. Kasing dami ng mga isla sa ating kapuluan.  If not reversed, it will turn us into an archipelago of dismissed nurses. It is a kind of hospital discharge that is the most unkind.  This is...

Increasing their annual “chalk allowance” should be part of a package of amelioration measures for our public school teachers. The package should include a pay raise, an increase in their clothing allowance, a hike in chalk allowance, the creation of higher ranks, and increasing...