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MANILA, Philippines — The lack of funds for the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Education Institute’s (DOST-SEI) cash program led to the delayed release of their undergraduate scholars’ stipends, the agency said on Thursday, September 5.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte has denied misusing confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President in 2022 after the Commission on Audit (COA) found irregularities in the OVP’s fund utilization.
SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian yesterday said he would “challenge” the intelligence funds of law enforcement agencies due to their failure to detect the escape of dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo and her siblings last July.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education's finance unit is not aware of how Vice President Sara Duterte spent the department's P112.5 million in confidential funds in 2023.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education came under fire from House lawmakers on Monday, September 2, for its failure to promptly deliver any of the laptops for school personnel and smart TVs it received funding for in 2022 and 2023 under then-Education Secretary Sara Duterte.
MANILA, Philippines — For Alliance of Concerned Teachers Rep. France Castro, Vice President Sara Duterte had committed an “impeachable offense” for misusing the P125-million confidential funds given to her in 2022.
MANILA, Philippines — Several local chief executives are under investigation for drug trafficking to finance their campaigns in the midterm elections in 2025, the chief anti-narcotics officer of the Philippine National Police (PNP) revealed yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman has formally filed a graft case against former Department of Health secretary Francisco Duque III and former Department of Budget and Management Procurement Service executive director Lloyd Christopher Lao in connection with alleged irregularities in the DOH’s transfer of its P41.46-billion fund to PS-DBM at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.