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[Title] => Government, too harsh on others, too lenient on itself?
[Summary] => Why is the government too harsh, excessively unforgiving and even unusually cruel to private contractors and manpower agencies and their principals, which private companies on the issue of job contracting, while at the same time, government agencies and all echelons of government including LGUs are maintaining millions of casuals, contractuals, job order workers, who are denied security of tenure and all benefits after working for 10 to 20 years?
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[Summary] => For better or for worse, government has to continue dealing with contractors.
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[Title] => Institutional corruption
[Summary] => All the despicable corrupt schemes of our public officials with private contractors are nothing new. These have been going on for a very long time. We have tolerated it.
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[Title] => Mayor seeking formal commitment from public works contractors
[Summary] => As the Cebu City Government continues to pursue projects under the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival said there is only one contractor so far that has been required to submit a Commitment of Undertaking (COU).
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[Title] => Cebu provincial government to blacklist underperforming contractors
[Summary] => Contractors with poor performance records may soon be blacklisted from engaging in future projects of the Cebu provincial government, as Governor Pamela Baricuatro’s administration is continuing its review of suspended infrastructure works.
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[Title] => ‘43 contractors must explain 2022 campaign donations’
[Summary] => Nine more contractors have been identified by the Commission on Elections to have possibly extended donations to candidates in the 2022 elections, adding to the list of 34 contractors the Comelec initially forwarded to the House of Representatives.
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[Title] => Contractors insist: No ghost projects, illegal wealth
[Summary] => Contractors at the center of multibillion-peso flood control deals yesterday denied allegations of ghost projects, even as senators grilled them on possible anomalies within government agencies.
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[AuthorName] => Neil Jayson Servallos
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[Title] => Comelec finds 31 possible contractors linked to 2022 campaign donations
[Summary] => The poll body has identified 31 contractors who may have donated to candidates in the 2022 national elections.
[DatePublished] => 2025-09-01 18:16:00
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[AuthorName] => Dominique Nicole Flores
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[Title] => Contractors: Abolish lawmakers’ powers over infra projects
[Summary] => Believe it or not, not all contractors are corrupt, just as not all district engineers are unscrupulous, audacious and greedy.
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[Title] => Contractors in panic, rushing to cover their tracks
[Summary] => Unscrupulous contractors are now in a mad rush to cover their tracks, say my sources, amid bombshell after bombshell of corruption-related exposés on flood control projects.
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[Title] => Institutional corruption
[Summary] => All the despicable corrupt schemes of our public officials with private contractors are nothing new. These have been going on for a very long time. We have tolerated it.
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[Title] => Mayor seeking formal commitment from public works contractors
[Summary] => As the Cebu City Government continues to pursue projects under the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival said there is only one contractor so far that has been required to submit a Commitment of Undertaking (COU).
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[Title] => Cebu provincial government to blacklist underperforming contractors
[Summary] => Contractors with poor performance records may soon be blacklisted from engaging in future projects of the Cebu provincial government, as Governor Pamela Baricuatro’s administration is continuing its review of suspended infrastructure works.
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[Title] => ‘43 contractors must explain 2022 campaign donations’
[Summary] => Nine more contractors have been identified by the Commission on Elections to have possibly extended donations to candidates in the 2022 elections, adding to the list of 34 contractors the Comelec initially forwarded to the House of Representatives.
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[Title] => Contractors insist: No ghost projects, illegal wealth
[Summary] => Contractors at the center of multibillion-peso flood control deals yesterday denied allegations of ghost projects, even as senators grilled them on possible anomalies within government agencies.
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[Title] => Comelec finds 31 possible contractors linked to 2022 campaign donations
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[Title] => Contractors: Abolish lawmakers’ powers over infra projects
[Summary] => Believe it or not, not all contractors are corrupt, just as not all district engineers are unscrupulous, audacious and greedy.
[DatePublished] => 2025-08-31 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Iris Gonzales
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[Title] => Contractors in panic, rushing to cover their tracks
[Summary] => Unscrupulous contractors are now in a mad rush to cover their tracks, say my sources, amid bombshell after bombshell of corruption-related exposés on flood control projects.
[DatePublished] => 2025-08-24 00:00:00
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