Tag: accountability
Former Caloocan barangay exec gets 6 years in jail for losing trike
A FORMER barangay chairman in Caloocan City is facing six to eight years in prison for losing a government-issued tricycle to theft.
The Sandiganbayan likewise...
Can Sotto redeem a tarnished Senate?
‘The Senate has too often circled the wagons. Sotto must prove that this one will be different.’
NEW Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III inherits...
‘GUARD PUBLIC FUNDS, EXECUTE BUDGETS PROPERLY’
Finance Secretary Ralph Recto on Tuesday directed newly appointed local treasurers for Visayas and Mindanao to act as the nation’s “first line of defense”...
Dear Speaker Martin
‘Let’s make no mistake, Speaker Martin: the people want blood. And I will dare say they deserve it.’
DEAR Speaker Martin:
I’m sure - being the...
Solons deny getting grease money from Discayas
SPEAKER Martin Romualdez yesterday denied that he was among the lawmakers who allegedly accepted commissions from flood control projects, saying he “cannot and will...
