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THE Commission on Audit (COA) has affirmed with finality its January 16, 2020 decision sustaining the finding of cost-padding against the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) – Laguna First District Engineering Office (LFDEO) regarding three infrastructure projects awarded to private contractors in 2011 and 2012.
THE Commission on Audit has flagged the Department of Education (DepEd) for low fund utilization in several projects that hampered its objective to upgrade education in the public school system.
THE Commission on Audit has ordered the city government of Iriga, Camarines Sur to refund P18.36 million to a private firm after the botched sale of a property in 2015.
A P42.13 million claim filed in 2019 by the D.M. Consunji, Inc. (DMCI) and R-II Builders, Inc. against the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has been thrown out by the Commission on Audit for lack of merit.
THE Commission on Audit has dismissed a compensation claim filed by DMCI Project Developers Inc. (DMCI-PDI) on Aug. 22, 2022 seeking payment of a P853.117-million judgment award against the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and North Luzon Railways Corp. (Northrail).
IT took many years but the Sandiganbayan said it still intends to start hearings on six counts of graft filed against an accused who was implicated in the alleged ghost deliveries of P89 million worth of “supplies and materials” for the Philippine Air Force (PAF) way back 1994.
WOMEN outnumber men seeking college education with 2.74 million or 57.2 percent of the 4.79 million total enrollment as of December 31, 2023, according to the latest figures released by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
THE number of male civil servants in government dropped in the last 12 months while women landed more government jobs – and better-paying ones, too.