Pork Barrel/DAP

December 18, 2016 0

Rich kids to get free tuition courtesy of poor Muslim families

The re-distribution in the 2017 budget of Php8 billion worth of funds from poor Muslim communities to provide free tuition to state university students constitutes a perverse outcome. Youth [read more]

August 6, 2014 0

Defending DILG’s Php 14 Billion DAP

by Dean de la Paz, as originally posted on Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles In the ever-worsening controversy involving the misuse of our hard-earned taxes and its wholesale and unauthorized [read more]

July 22, 2014 0

On DAP threats and blackmail

By Dean de la Paz , as posted on Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles It started with vindictiveness. Now there are threats and blackmail. Is this any way to run a government? Not a few had [read more]

July 21, 2014 0

Reader reacts: Mr. Aquino’s unpresidential act of attacking the SC over its adverse ruling on the unconstitutionality of the DAP

I refer to the Philippine Daily Inquirer report, “Aquino warns SC of clash”, July 15th concerning the nationally televised address of Mr. Aquino defending his DAP. I say that Mr. Aquino’s [read more]

July 21, 2014 0

The P144-B DAP Express : A maze of good, bad, open, opaque projects

By Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Three Parts “Good intentions are not good enough.” That, according to Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio [read more]

July 15, 2014 0

Reader reacts: President Aquino’s speech on DAP

by Rene Pamintuan Perhaps it all boils down to the issue of functionality of the various departments of our Philippine government. If the president all on his whims and caprices, designs and wills, [read more]

July 15, 2014 0

Aquino’s DAP speech: Same smug defense of a badass budget scheme

By Carlos Maningat as originally posted on Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles. It was more of the same smug defense of the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) replete with [read more]

July 13, 2014 0

Wishlist: What do you want to hear from President Aquino on DAP?

The Palace is taking the taxpayers for a ride on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) bandwagon . I am not surprised that President Benigno S. Aquino III will address the Filipino people [read more]

July 12, 2014 0

Taken for a Ride on the DAP Bandwagon

by Dean de la Paz , as originally posted at Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles When a presidential alter ego and the ruling party’s bet for 2016 went on a short and intimate albeit [read more]

July 12, 2014 0

An open letter to Butch Abad

July 11, 2014 Dear Butch, Peace! I knew you then when we were young and idealistic college students. We both listened to Fr. Ferriols and admired not only his sharpness of thought but his depth of [read more]

July 10, 2014 0

DAP and the Culpable Violation of the Constitution

by Dean de la Paz as originally posted at DAP and the Culpable Violation of the Constitution After the declaration of unconstitutionality by the Supreme Court on Benigno Aquino III’s notorious [read more]

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Blog Watch receives the “Best Story” Award for the First Data Journalism PH 2015 from the Open Knowledge Foundation and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism for their story on “Aid Monitoring: Citizens’ Initial Efforts in the Wake of Typhoon Yolanda” . Forbes Philippines also received the same award.