The following is a statement of Rep. Teodoro L. Locsin (Makati) on House Resolution No. 1109 to convene the House of Representatives into a constituent assembly (Con-Ass). House Resolution convening itself as a constituent assembly THROWING A PARTY FOR...

Our latest offering is a two-part report on how politics drive the award of public-works contracts. The first part written by senior journalist Tita C. Valderama, PCIJ training director, reveals how two sons in Congress of President Gloria Macapagal...

AS a sidebar to our story on the conflicting findings by the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in the National Road Improvement and Management Project...

OUR latest report tackles why and how the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways reached starkly different conclusions in their separate investigations into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in the...

THE Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s current probe on the 2004 alleged fertilizer fund diversification is supposed to be in aid of legislation, but it seems it’s the opposition in the lower chamber that has come up with a related bill. According to...

THEY usually begin with promising phrases like “to strengthen” or “to improve” governance, and then almost always end up making a common recommendation -- either “to amend” or “to revise” the 1987 Constitution. A torrent of such...

WITH delicadeza just so easily dispensed with, the fourth impeachment complaint against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was junked last week and goes to a plenary vote this Tuesday. But it is unlikely that enough votes will be garnered to overturn the House of...