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Sad stats on women and children
Filipino women in especially difficult circumstances, 2000 to 2015. THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN, or Republic Act No. 9710, passed into law on August 14, 2009, or over eight years ago. It affirmed the...
View ArticleUnexplained wealth, redacted?
TO REDACT or not to redact. Which could avoid or attract scrutiny and censure?Redactions are not the only issue that could arise if public officials would shade or black out the true, detailed, and...
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SALNs of Cabinet members:An epidemic of redactions
MORE THAN a year after President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed the Freedom of Information executive order, a practice completely reverse of the policy has been creeping onto some documents requested by...
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SALNs to impeach CJ, other execs but Palace redacts Cabinet SALNs
A CHIEF JUSTICE was impeached in 2012 for failure to declare the true and detailed list of condo units he owned, and pesos and dollars he had in banks.Ten years prior, a President was forced out of...
View ArticleData Privacy Act ‘not a subterfuge’ to redact SALNs – NPC Chair Liboro
THE DATA PRIVACY ACT “is not meant to serve as a subterfuge to prevent the processing and/or disclosure of personal information sanctioned under law.”This, according to Chairman Raymund E. Liboro of...
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Public order, safety, and drugs: Weary, wicked, wretched data
WILL THE NATION see the return of a virulent war on drugs? Nine days after he issued a memorandum placing the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) as the “sole agency” in charge of the drug war,...
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No PH law vs. offshore accounts, issue splits finance execs, then, now
WHAT DO some bankers and fund managers, a few senior government officials, a dozen top taxpayers, and a handful of companies located in the country have in common? They are among some 200 Filipinos,...
View ArticleOpen Contracting in PH: Key recommendations
Download (PDF, 2.77MB)(From Public Contracting in the Philippines: Breakthroughs and Barriers, a case study on the procurement of infrastructure projects by the Department of Public Works and...
View ArticleHow PH fares: Only two of five stars
THE OPEN CONTRACTING Data Standard (OCDS) is an open data standard created by the Open Contracting Partnership for the publication of structured information in all stages of the contracting process,...
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Big money for PH projects, no access to all documents
THERE is no dearth of hard lessons in Philippine procurement. The PEA-Amari and Textbook Scams in the 1990s, the Fertilizer Fund Scam and the botched NBN-ZTE and North Rail deals in the 2000s, the Pork...
View ArticleStand by Rappler, stay tuned
HARSH and with horrifying implications on the full and untrammeled exercise of press freedom.That is the least that could be said of the decision of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) en banc...
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A patchwork of sketchy plans, loose rules, uncertain funding
Displaced residents of Marawi City at the Saguiaran Evacuation Center, Philippine Information Agency photo published May 31, 2017, http://pia.gov.ph/photogallery/photos/20 THE SIEGE of the Islamic...
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A majority of Duterte allies will pick Marawi’s ground-zero contractor
A SMALL COMMITTEE of seven persons, including four political appointees and associates of President Rodrigo R. Duterte from Davao City and elsewhere in Mindanao, will decide which business entities...
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Firms of clans among winners of Marawi road, housing deals
CONTRACTORS tied to political clans have been awarded a combined total of P306 million in contracts to build transitional shelter units and roads for residents of Marawi City and nearby villages of...
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DSWD-Region 12 blows a billion pesos on food packs, various kits for Marawi
NEARLY EVERY month in the last half of 2017, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office in Region XII (Central Mindanao) went on a shopping binge and ended up splurging over a...
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Price check: Hygiene kit items cost more than DTI, retail chain rates
Photo posted by RanaoStar.com, Nov. 4, 2017, http://ranaostar.blogspot.com THE top three suppliers of the billion-peso food, hygiene, and various other kits for the displaced residents of the Islamic...
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SMA Builder replies to PCIJ
THE general manager of SMA Builder, one of the firms awarded with a road project in Marawi, this Monday confirmed to PCIJ that she is related to the Macarambons but clarified that the political family...
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China State’s Marawi consortium out; PowerChina’s consortium next in line
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 June) — It’s back to zero for Marawi’s Ground Zero.There will be no groundbreaking rites on the first week of July as earlier announced by Housing Secretary and Task Force...
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The state of the regions by stats: Unpacking the federalism gambit
IF FEDERALISM is the answer, what is the question?If federalism is the solution, what is the problem?Indeed, where are the people in the debate and what motives or reasons drive the pitch to shift?...
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Federalism, how much? P44B? P51B?
IF THE push for federalism is at core a variant of decentralization, the nation’s experience with the Local Government Code that passed in 1991 is an object lesson.Dr. Rosario G. Manasan, a senior...
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