TAKING ON corruption is never easy. After two years of investigation by nearly three dozen lawyers of the Office of the Ombudsman reviewing thousands of documents, the corruption cases involving the use of pork-barrel funds against an incredible tally of...
August 27, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, Governance, Human Rights, Jejomar C Binay, Media, Noynoy Watch
By Davinci S. Maru
HUNDREDS of mourners marched on Wednesday afternoon from Manila’s Sampaloc district to Mendiola in Malacañang to bid goodbye to loved one.
The bereaved, clad in traditional black shirts, walked in paces behind a simple brown...
August 26, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Congress Watch, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Jejomar C Binay, Noynoy Watch, Pork Barrel Scam
SO WHAT if pork money or earmarks for legislators line the budget of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)? Who gets how much, and how?
Why, in the first place, do legislators have to course their pork monies to TESDA for...
THEY ARE supposed to be top-rate technical vocational institutions (TVIs), which is why they bagged millions of pesos from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
Or actually, from the pork-barrel funds of some legislators...
August 24, 2015 · Posted in: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, Investigative Reports, Jejomar C Binay, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
TWO PICTURES in stark contrast have been drawn about one agency: the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
The first, a none-too-flattering one, by the Commission on Audit (COA), which speaks of “deficiencies” by the dozen...
AT THE height of the media hoopla over the pork-barrel scam two years ago, Dennis Cunanan had a perennially furrowed brow that matched a grim countenance. But the Dennis Cunanan who sat down with PCIJ recently looked relaxed – which is not exactly what...
FIGHTING corruption has been one of the top priorities of President Benigno S. Aquino III. Or so he claims. He bannered the slogan “kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap” during the 2010 presidential campaign.
He promised to be the...
