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Innovations such as: precast concrete arch bridges of 12m spans, concrete tower silos, people’s donation for road right of way of widened barangay roads, advanced drilling technology which resulted in truly potable barangay water systems, prepaid water dispensing, multi-level school buildings, surface irrigation systems, travelling irrigator ...
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is the transmission system operator for three grids constituting the Philippine grid and as a franchise holder and transmission service provider, it is in charge of operating, maintaining, and developing the country's power grid, [27] controls the supply and demand of power by determining ...
Politics is dominated by a powerful elite, with dynastic politics common at both the local and national levels. Political parties are weak, with elections instead dominated by individual and familial personalities. Political positions provide extensive opportunities for patronage, and clientelism and electoral fraud are common.
Casimero Bustamante "Roy" Padilla Sr. (Tagalog pronunciation:; March 4, 1926 – January 17, 1988) was a Filipino politician who served as governor of the province of Camarines Norte from 1986 until his death in 1988 as a member of Corazon Aquino's UNIDO ticket. [3]
It was reorganized as a political party in 1986, [9] and is the furthest to the right of the political spectrum among active parties after Marcos' ouster. [ 9 ] Since 1986, the KBL has contested in most of the national and local elections in the Philippines , but retained a single seat in the House of Representatives in Ilocos Norte , which was ...
Aquino's campaign slogan to emphasize his platform against corruption. His campaign is a response to the previous administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which faced many political scandals some of which implicated the President herself. The slogan proposes that with the eradication of corruption, poverty is likewise addressed.
In the 18th Congress, Quimbo was a member of a technical working group tasked to study the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN, the largest broadcaster in the Philippines. She was the lone dissenter against the decision of two other members, representatives Pablo John Garcia and Xavier Jesus Romuald, to disapprove the application of ABS-CBN for ...
Yap first entered government service in August 2001 as president and CEO of the Philippine International Trading Corporation under the Department of Trade and Industry. Thereafter, he served as the administrator of the National Food Authority for two years and as Agriculture Undersecretary for Luzon Operations, after which was a brief stint as ...