Latest in InfrastructureEvery school, hospital, and housing project Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso builds in Manila is a high-rise. The maverick mayor said this was not out of architectural preference but out of necessity, fiscal logic, and a deliberate effort to anticipate the city’s needs 15 years into the…
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when economies worldwide had ground to a halt and most governments were cutting spending, Manila City Mayor Francisco “Isko” Moreno Domagoso made a counterintuitive decision. The maverick mayor borrowed money and built—simultaneously funding vertical housing…
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) used a simple bilao—a winnowing basket—to explain how the Marcos administration’s proposed ₱7.2 trillion 2027 national budget is allocated. Roughly half of the budget goes to salaries and pensions, more than 20% to infrastructure, and the remainder…
The Department of Education (DepEd) has allocated ₱65 billion specifically for new classroom construction under its historic ₱1.012 trillion budget, the largest classroom infrastructure investment in the department’s history, Undersecretary Edson Byron Sy said Saturday. Sy made the disclosure in…
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson dropped a bombshell on Sunday, July 26, baring fresh evidence of double billing and collection involving infrastructure projects in Taguig City—the political bailiwick of what he called “disgraced ex-Senate President” Alan Peter Cayetano—in his fourth update on ghost…
The Department of Agriculture’s budget has doubled from approximately ₱100 billion under the previous administration to ₱200 billion under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Agriculture Secretary Francisco “Kiko” Tiu Laurel said Saturday. Tiu Laurel made the statement in an interview on DZRH News…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has recommended plunder and graft charges against Senator Jinggoy Estrada and several former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials over an alleged conspiracy to manipulate the 2025 national infrastructure budget and siphon funds from flood control…
The Marcos administration is pumping funds into major infrastructure projects across key government agencies to prop up the economy and sustain employment amid the ongoing Middle East crisis, ordering a catch-up plan to ensure all programs are delivered on time this year. Executive Secretary Ralph…
A veteran Davao-based journalist says Vice President Sara Duterte’s commanding support in Mindanao traces directly to the memory of bridges, airports, and railways that rose across the south under her father’s “Build, Build, Build” program—and the region’s hope that she will bring it back. Serafin…
More than her family name, it is Mindanao’s frustration with the national government that continues to drive Vice President Sara Duterte’s overwhelming support in the south, a veteran Davao-based journalist says. Serafin “Jun” Ledesma Jr., a longtime Davao-based journalist and commentator…
Vietnam is in the grip of a construction frenzy unlike anything Southeast Asia has seen in a generation—and while Hanoi breaks ground on bullet trains, nuclear plants, and the world’s largest stadium, the Philippines is fighting a different kind of battle: keeping fuel affordable for ordinary…
With global economic uncertainty rising from the US-Iran conflict, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is accelerating infrastructure spending, with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) releasing P46.22 billion to fund 1,743 infrastructure projects nationwide. Budget Secretary Rolando Toledo…
For decades, the etiquette to “stand on the right and walk on the left” on escalators has been treated as an unwritten rule of urban courtesy, but transit authorities and safety experts across Asia, Europe, and North America are now openly questioning whether the practice is unsafe, inefficient…
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has questioned why former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan received handwritten “Post-It” memos from civilians or non-DPWH personnel endorsing projects during his term as secretary. In a radio interview…
The Samahang Manggagawa sa Paliparan ng Pilipinas (SMPP), the duly recognized labor union of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), said it had no role in the petitions filed before the Supreme Court questioning the legality of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)…
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