MANILA, Philippines—In what looked like a dress rehearsal for the P10-billion pork barrel scam a few years later, two alleged accomplices at the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) ...
“Kung ayaw, maraming dahilan; kung gusto, maraming paraan.†That Filipino adage is the unwritten rule in project biddings at the Dept. of Transportation and Communications (DOTC). Foreign investors ...
I can almost imagine DOTC Sec. Jun Abaya heaving a sigh of relief after getting word of the Supreme Court TRO on the common station. He must have been relieved not to have to make a decision for the ...
Now it hits the fan, this P17.5-billion project of the Aquino (Part II) administration to build and operate a badly needed new passenger terminal at the Mactan Cebu International Airport. At the ...
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said on Saturday, February 8, that the owner of the Metro Rail Transit line 3 (MRT3) along EDSA has forced MRT riders ...
Auditors say the DOTC under Joseph Abaya spent P354.5 million on unnamed consultants in 2014, compared to the P17.45 million that Mar Roxas spent in 2012 MANILA, Philippines – The Department of ...
The Department of Transportation and Communication has a fleet of 51 motor vehicles with a total value of only P50.00, according to a report from the Commission on Audit released Wednesday. Based on ...
MANILA, Philippines – The website of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) has been restored after it was vandalized by a hacker said to be from Turkey. “The DOTC has restored ...
At the Senate hearing last Monday on the problems of the Metro Rail Transit line 3 (MRT3), the resource persons, all from the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), made it appear ...
At the Senate hearing on the frequent MRT breakdowns, Sen. Chiz Escudero asked Undersecretary Jose Lotilla why the government has not sued Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC) or MRT Holdings, the owner of ...