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                    [Title] => Barbers wants probe on DPWH official
                    [Summary] => Sen. Robert Barbers urged yesterday Public Works Secretary Simeon Datumanong to investigate Undersecretary Manuel Bonoan for alleged habitual intervention in the concern of construction firms undertaking infrastructure projects.


Barbers called for the investigation after receiving numerous complaints from construction companies that several government projects have been delayed because of Bonoan’s "obstruction, more often on the companies’ financial status."


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                    [Title] => No drastic rise in right-of-way claims — DPWH
                    [Summary] => The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) clarified yesterday that unpaid road right-of-way (RROW) claims filed with the agency nationwide since 1997 only total some P3 billion.


Lawyer Joel Jacob, DPWH legal division chief, refuted reports that claims for RROW compensation has reached P7 billion, as contained in a resolution filed by Sen. Ramon Revilla.


Revilla, chairman of the Senate committee on public works, cited records showing that RROW claims have risen drastically the past two years.


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                    [Title] => Revilla seeks investigation of DPWH payment on ‘ghost’ right-of-way claims
                    [Summary] => Sen. Ramon B. Revilla has sought an investigation into the payment by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) of fictitious right-of-way claims as it unduly "depletes scarce government financial resources."


Revilla has filed Senate Resolution No. 440 which seeks to probe the validation of right-of-way claims which has ballooned to P6.55 billion of which P491.1 million have already been paid as of Aug. 7, 2002.


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                    [Title] => Datumanong OIC sa PEA
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Ayon kay Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, si Public Works Secretary Simeon Datumanong ang magsisilbing OIC sa PEA at isa sa direktiba ng Pangulo kay Datumanong ay tiyaking hindi magagalaw ang mga dokumento sa sinasabing road project.


Mananatili si Datumanong sa pangangasiwa sa PEA hanggat hindi natatapos ang imbestigasyon.


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                    [Title] => DPWH still looking for 150 missing vehicles
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For the past weeks, the Department of Public Works and Highways has been trying to find out what had happened to 150 vehicles owned by the DPWH that were recently discovered to be missing.


Three people whose assigned vehicles were among the missing have claimed to government auditors that they lost the vehicles to car thieves, a source privy to the inquiry told The STAR.


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                    [Title] => GMA extends DPWH official’s term to rush NAIA 3 roads
                    [Summary] => Public Works Secretary Simeon Datumanong announced successive promotions last week. But he soon realized that the people he promoted have nowhere to go – there is no vacancy in the position ladder.


Confusion hit the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) over the weekend after Datumanong issued Department Order 237 only to withdraw it later after finding out that President Arroyo has extended the chief of the DPWH in National Capital Region who is  supposedly retiring this month.


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                    [Title] => Japanese traders threaten pullout
                    [Summary] => Japanese businessmen threatened yesterday to pull out their investments from the country if the government continues to ignore their grievances.


The 200-strong Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines (JCCIP) is concerned about constantly changing investment policies, a militant labor force, high production costs, diminishing quality of locally produced goods, and the deteriorating peace and order situation.


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PUBLIC WORKS SECRETARY SIMEON DATUMANONG

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Lawyer Joel Jacob, DPWH legal division chief, refuted reports that claims for RROW compensation has reached P7 billion, as contained in a resolution filed by Sen. Ramon Revilla.


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EDITORIAL – Can anyone clean up the DPWH?

January 5, 2003 - 12:00am

As of late yesterday afternoon Bayani Fernando was reportedly still considering whether he should accept the post of secretary of public works and highways.

Opinion

Barbers wants probe on DPWH official

December 21, 2002 - 12:00am

Sen. Robert Barbers urged yesterday Public Works Secretary Simeon Datumanong to investigate Undersecretary Manuel Bonoan for alleged habitual intervention in the concern of construction firms undertaking infrastructure...

Headlines

No drastic rise in right-of-way claims — DPWH

November 24, 2002 - 12:00am

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) clarified yesterday that unpaid road right-of-way (RROW) claims filed with the agency nationwide since 1997 only total some P3 billion. Lawyer Joel Jacob, DPWH...

Headlines

Revilla seeks investigation of DPWH payment on ‘ghost’ right-of-way claims

October 20, 2002 - 12:00am

Sen. Ramon B. Revilla has sought an investigation into the payment by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) of fictitious right-of-way claims as it unduly "depletes scarce government financial resources." Revilla...

Business

Datumanong OIC sa PEA

September 27, 2002 - 12:00am

Agad humirang si Pangulong Arroyo ng officer-in-charge (OIC) sa Public Estates Authority matapos na magbakasyon ang mga opisyal ng PEA dahil sa umano’y anomalya sa Pres. Diosdado Macapagal blvd. sa Reclamation...

Bansa

DPWH still looking for 150 missing vehicles

By Jose Aravilla | September 23, 2002 - 12:00am

What will they think of next? For the past weeks, the Department of Public Works and Highways has been trying to find out what had happened to 150 vehicles owned by the DPWH that were recently discovered to be missing. Three...

Headlines

GMA extends DPWH official’s term to rush NAIA 3 roads

By Jose Aravilla | September 16, 2002 - 12:00am

Public Works Secretary Simeon Datumanong announced successive promotions last week. But he soon realized that the people he promoted have nowhere to go – there is no vacancy in the position ladder. Confusion...

Metro

Japanese traders threaten pullout

By Marianne V. Go | August 7, 2001 - 12:00am

Japanese businessmen threatened yesterday to pull out their investments from the country if the government continues to ignore their grievances. The 200-strong Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines...

Headlines