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DBM TOLD: ‘COME CLEAN ON DAP’

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – Where did the billions of pesos of Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds go? The Department of Budget and Management...

Negros backs PNoy

BY EUGENE Y. ADIONG BACOLOD City – All but one member of Negros Occidental’s Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) signed a manifesto expressing support to President Benigno...

Plunder case bad for Binay – ‘ex-ally’

BY HERBERT VEGO BORACAY – An Ilonggo politician on vacation here (name withheld upon request) believes that the plunder case against Vice President Jejomar Binay...

2 men die of AIDS in Iloilo

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City –Two men from Iloilo province died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the Provincial Health Office (PHO) confirmed. The men were...

11 sachets of shabu seized

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Eleven sachets of shabu were seized from three drug suspects arrested in Barangay San Antonio, Ajuy, Iloilo around 6:20...

‘Alarm and scandal’

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Policemen of Dumangas, Iloilo threw a 44-year-old troublemaker behind bars. Aldo Docdocil alias “Boy Aldo” of Barangay Aurora Del Pilar,...

‘DAP ruling may undo economic gains’

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – The Supreme Court ruling on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) may “undo” the country’s economic gains, warned Secretary of...

Who enjoyed DAP projects?

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – The Department of Budget and Management will release a list of projects under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) with...

Saudi OFW escapes death penalty

BY SAMMY JULIAN Manila News Bureau Chief MANILA - A 36-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Saudi Arabia was spared from the death sentence after charitable...

Police outposts on airport access road sought

By MAE SINGUAY BACOLOD City — City councilors here want the “spate” of stoning of vehicles along the Bacolod–Silay Airport Access Road here stopped. They requested...