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Kaladkaren inokray-okray sa Woman of Influence award: Bakit siya?!
MAS pinahanga pa ng award-winning actress at TV5 news anchor na si Kaladkaren ang mga LGBTQIA+ community sa bago niyang award. Isa si Kaladkaren o Jervi Li sa tunay na buhay sa mga binigyan ng pagkilala bilang Woman of Influence ng Cosmopolitan Philippines kamakailan. Kasama niyang tumanggap ng naturang award sina Iza Calzado, Carla Abellana.....»»
Rappler Talk: Leila de Lima, a woman of faith
In this Holy Week episode, former senator Leila de Lima opens up about faith, forgiveness, and the godsent pets who kept her company in nearly seven years in jail.....»»
Canino is Olympiad bound
It was sealed by an 83-move draw with Woman FIDE Master Cherry Ann Mejia of a Sicilian in the 10th and penultimate round of the Philippine National Women’s Chess Championship at the Malolos City Hall in Bulacan......»»
FACES OF CEBU: Maribeth Mall Ababon, 35, woman firefighter
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Womanhood does not set a boundary on what you can do to be of service to society. Over the years, this sentence has been proven to be true as women have found their place in various industries, especially those known to be historically dominated by men. Among these is the fire.....»»
Sarah Geronimo named 1st Woman of the Year at Billboard Philippines Women of Music awards
Sarah Geronimo made history yet again on Friday night as she was named the first Woman of the Year at the first-ever Billboard Philippines Women in Music awards held in Samsung Hall in SM Aura Premier, Taguig City. .....»»
PNP colonel faces admin raps over sex video
A police colonel accused of documenting his sexual encounters with a woman he had an illicit affair with is facing administrative cases before the Office of the Ombudsman......»»
Philippine road crash kills woman, injures man
MANILA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A woman was killed after the motorcycle she and her husband were riding was hit by an overtaking bus along a highway in Rizal province of the Philippines at dawn on Monday, police said. Police said the accident occurred around 4 a.m. while the couple traveled along a highway in Taytay town. The woman died at the crash site, while her husband sustained injuries in the left arm......»»
Kim Chiu does solo Eras Tour in Singapore, complains about kissing couple
Nothing was going to stop host-actress Kim Chiu from seeing singer-songwriter Taylor Swift live, even if it meant attending a concert alone......»»
House mulls bigger CoA budget
House lawmakers on Thursday rallied to grant the Commission on Audit a bigger chunk of next year’s P5.768 trillion proposed national budget to strengthen its power to uphold accountability and transparency within the national government. The proposed allocation for the audit body in 2024 is only P13.36 trillion, way lower than its current funding of P13.8 trillion. From the 2023 General Appropriations Act, CoA received a budget cut of P42,494,000 to the 2023 National Expenditure Program of the Department of Budget and Management. Citing the crucial role of the CoA against mismanagement of public funds, Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raoul Manuel said the CoA must get and be entitled to receive a bigger share of the national budget, especially when there is huge funding for confidential and intelligence funds for various agencies Manuel lobbied the proposal to the House Committee on Appropriations, which is looking into the CoA’s budget for 2024. CoA’s mission is to ensure accountability for public resources, promote transparency, and help improve government operations in partnership with stakeholders to benefit the public. Its mandate includes examining, auditing and settling all accounts about the revenue and receipts of, and expenditures or uses of funds and property owned or held, or pertaining to, the government. The rookie lawmaker noted that while there has been a downward trend in CoA’s budget since 2022, the confidential and intelligence funds that he believes the CoA should be examining more, are surging. “This is despite the fact that for 2024, we have a proposed increase of 9.5 percent in the total national budget. So, the pie will grow, but the budget of CoA will decrease,” he said. Mismanagement of funds While several agencies sought bulk of confidential and intelligence funds, CoA chairperson Gamaliel Cordoba said they also requested the same at P10 million being utilized for their operations to assist the prosecution in cases involving mismanagement of funds revealed in audit reports. “Our auditors often become witnesses in the cases filed in the Ombudsman and Sandiganbayan. We help the security of our witnesses when needed,” Cardoba told lawmakers. “When someone complains about our personnel, we hire third-party investigators to help us,” the CoA chief explained. Next year’s proposed national spending plan is P5 million or 9.5 percent higher than 2023’s P5.268 trillion spending program, which the House had approved in barely six weeks under the General Appropriations Bill. Regardless, according to Manuel, given that there are still many items to be audited in the last year and the current national budget, CoA should be getting a bigger budget allocation. Echoing Manuel, ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro said CoA has been assisting Congress, whose role is the power of the purse, in determining if funds given to the government agencies and their attached offices are properly used. “If there is an agency that is a plus for me, it is CoA because I can really see its performance. It releases performance audits and observations that help Congress,” she said. In a similar vein to the minority members, Marikina Rep. Stella Quimbo, senior vice chairperson of the appropriations panel, also underscored that CoA’s role stands as a cornerstone of fiscal integrity “in a landscape where financial prudence and transparency are indispensable.” “Scrutinizing the use of public funds and resources not only ensures accountability but also fosters an environment of trust. Every peso spent with integrity, every transaction examined thoroughly, contributes to the overarching goal of economic growth,” the economist-lawmaker said. The CoA, according to Quimbo, is not merely an auditing agency, but a custodian of the nation’s financial health. The post House mulls bigger CoA budget appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Bum deal brings pain
A contract inherited from the previous Land Transportation Office regime is now a major cause of headaches for the leadership of the agency and, in effect, the entire nation as it caused the delay in the release of driver’s licenses. German firm-led joint venture Dermalog introduced the Land Transportation Management System or LTMS which is a P3.4-billion project awarded in 2018. The dispute over the contract is the crux of the stalled distribution of the cards. The company has been disqualified from the contract to produce the plastic licenses, which it assumed from Allcard which failed to perform its obligations. Worse, in 2020, according to documents filed with the Ombudsman, Dermalog “interfered in and controlled the LTO’s printing system of driver’s license cards.” LTO Chief Assistant Secretary Jose Arturo “Jay Art” Tugade inherited the problem after he was appointed in November 2022. With the actions it took, Dermalog was considered by LTO officials a “threat to national security.” Post-qualification of Dermalog for the contract was based on the ground of its failure “to fully comply with its obligations under its 2017 contract with LTO.” A 2021 report of the Commission on Audit flagged LTO’s payment of P3.15 billion to Dermalog despite several defects that delayed and disrupted the system. LTO is conducting an extensive probe which may lead to the possible scrapping of the Dermalog contract. Congress is ready to probe the alleged “illegal payment” despite the “incomplete turnover of deliverables.” The circumstances proved that the contract was in clear violation of procurement and auditing rules, warranting an extensive probe. The German-led venture had reneged on the deal more than four years after the December 2018 delivery date as the system is still not fully functional and fully rolled out. The Dermalog system was incompatible with the LTO processes that needed to be adjusted to accommodate the new system’s functions. The Ombudsman in denying Dermalog’s petition to cite bidding committee officials for graft said: “Respondents (members of LTO bidding body) did not commit any irregularity when they objected to the post-qualification of the complainant (Dermalog) in the 2021 procurement.” “It also took Dermalog until 2 July 2021 to agree to turn over all “source codes,” in escrow, create an upload facility and include it in the Inventory Management System, thereby removing LTO’s dependency on it; and grant to LTO the exclusive right to use the watermark or hologram delivered to it, “recognizing in the process the need of the LTO to be independent of the vendor as a lesson from the past.” “Its avowed intention to turn over in escrow only means that it has not indeed fully complied with its obligations under the 2017 procurement,” according to the Ombudsman’s resolution. The Ombudsman said it was not inclined “to indict respondents (LTO bidding officials) for violation of Section 3 of Republic Act 3019 for delay under RA 9184 when the facts, as they are in this case, showed that Dermalog has not been candid in its business dealings with LTO and has, by itself, caused the delay it complains about.” The dispute over the contract has held hostage the LTO, the Department of Transportation, and Filipino motorists to Dermalog’s demand that the government pay it in full despite its shortcomings. Eventually, the deficiency from the deal reflects on the image of the administration since it has been quite a while since inefficiency has been a distinctive complaint against frontline service providers. The post Bum deal brings pain appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
‘Moreno complains of body pains, but recovering’
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is complaining of body pains and dry cough, but he is on his way to recovery from COVID-19 infection, an official of the Sta. Ana Hospital reported yesterday......»»
France complains about delay in EU virus fund ratification
France on Friday took aim at the failure of some EU countries to rapidly ratify an emergency programme for the bloc's coronavirus-hit economies, singling out Germany......»»
Melania Trump breaks silence on Congress invasion& mdash;and complains
First Lady Melania Trump broke her silence Monday on last week's invasion of Congress by her husband's supporters, complaining that she has been unfairly treated......»»
DTI reviews rules on labeling imported cement as local
The Department of Trade and Industry plans to review the trade practice of allowing imported cement to be relabeled as local amid the complains of the domestic industry......»»