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House facelift to cost taxpayers P1 billion; fund source a puzzle
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s latest report looks into the massive renovation project at the House of Representatives. While initial reports placed the tag price at P200 million,...
View ArticleText blast vs FOI
A DAY before the Freedom of Information Act was supposed to be taken up at the House of Representatives, Speaker Prospero Nograles told media that text messages and phone calls were being made to...
View Article14th Congress buying 350 tables, chairs for 15th Congress for P8M
WHAT SECRET or secrets of the House of Representatives under Speaker Prospero Nograles would escape public scrutiny, amid Congress’s failed effort to ratify the Freedom of Information Act last Friday?...
View ArticleIn 14 years, Speaker grows wealth from P6.5M to P88M
OUT OF the last 14 years, lawyer Prospero Castillo Nograles spent 12 years as congressman of the first district of Davao City for five terms, and the last 27 months as Speaker of the House of...
View ArticleA different Legacy
NOBODY knows for sure how much money Speaker Prospero Nograles lost when he invested in at least one of the 12 banks under the collapsed Legacy Group of Companies. One thing is certain: Nograles had...
View ArticleHouse fails to ratify FOI due to supposed lack of quorum
House Majority Leader Arthur Defensor motions to ratify the Freedom of Information Act, which was objected to by Camiguin representative Pedro Romualdo. Romualdo is prepared to be ‘condemned’ for...
View ArticleFour more lawmakers present at FOI session
FOUR MORE members of the House of Representatives yesterday said they were among those wrongly named as absent — according to a list provided by Speaker Prospero Nograles to the media – during the roll...
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Some open spaces, many closed corners
DRIFT and confusion. Some pockets of transparency but most everywhere, a predilection for opaqueness and more barriers to access in place. This is the access to information regime that lingers in the...
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