SIDEBAR 1: The story of DAP
By Rowena F. Caronan and Karol Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism IT TOOK a peeved senator, who was being accused of corruption, for the public to be inadvertently introduced to what...
View ArticleSidebar 2: The DAP Express: P32B not on GAA
AT LEAST P32.23 billion of taxpayers’ money had been released under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) for projects and activities that had no funding cover or were not enrolled as approved...
View ArticleSidebar 3: Framing the DAP
THE STORY of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) has been debated using various frames. President Benigno S. Aquino III has offered the “right vs. wrong” frame, saying that “even our most...
View ArticlePH budget transparency, 64; Congress budget oversight, 36
THE PHILIPPINES scored 64, on a scale of 0 to 100, for transparency of eight budget documents in the latest Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2015, a report on 102 countries in the world. This piece of good...
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Top bets for prez, VP, Senate spend P54M daily on pol ads
By Floreen Simon and Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism EVEN WITH just part of their campaign spending captured by Nielsen Media’s monitoring of their political ads from Feb....
View ArticleSURE WINNERS, WARDENS OF VOTES? 802 unopposed local bets in areas with 6.8-M...
By Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THE IDEAL situation in any election is that two or more candidates fight for a seat, and they earn the votes through the merit of their...
View ArticleAnd the clans play on…Ampatuans, Ecleos, Sinsuats, Midtimbangs unrivalled in...
By Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism AMONG THE 802 unopposed candidates for the 2016 elections, a few stood out not just because their surnames sounded familiar, but also...
View Article95 SOCE non-filers running again, despite ‘perpetual disqualification’
By Jake Crisologo Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THEY WISH to lead the nation but refuse to comply even with the most basic rules: Report to the Commission on Elections how much money...
View ArticleRobredo, Escudero, Trillanes: What their 2015 SALN show
By Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THREE OF THE SIX candidates for vice president have released copies of their respective Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth...
View ArticlePCIJ WEALTH CHECK: SALN files of 5 bets for president writ in opaque, loose,...
THEY ARE MULTIMILLIONAIRES, affluent and ambitious to the last. On Monday, May 9, Filipinos will get to pick one among them to be president, and another to be vice president, of the nation. The...
View ArticlePNP stats, May 10-July 10, 2016: In 9 wks, drug war tally: 192 killed, 8,110...
THE WAR on drugs in the last nine weeks — or even before Rodrigo R. Duterte took his oath as president a fortnight ago on June 30 — has yielded ever bigger numbers of casualties, arrests, and...
View ArticlePNP stats on the drug war: In 2 weeks: 135 killed, 1,844 arrested, 66K...
BY OFFICIAL POLICE DATA, from July 1 to 13 this year, the Duterte administration’s war on crime has already chalked up big, if macabre, numbers: 135 persons killed or about 10 persons a day on average,...
View ArticleDuterte’s war: Breaking bad?
By Vino Lucero and Malou Mangahas Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism BANGKAY SA BANGKETA… kasi nga drug pusher ako. This is the sad refrain in a sardonic poem that a young Filipina wrote...
View ArticleSeized by cops, too: Shabu, Ecstacy, acetone, chloroform, muriatic acid
By Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism BEFORE Rodrigo R. Duterte became President on June 30, 2016, the Philippine National Police (PNP) had hauled a fairly bountiful harvest...
View ArticleRights body mounts testy probe of 103 drug killings and counting
By Karol Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ON TOP of Bayani Arago’s desk at the Commission on Human Rights National Capital Region (CHR NCR) is a pile of clippings now about an inch...
View ArticleBudget bill for public order: P206.57B
By Karol Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism EVEN PEACE and order come with a price tag, and next year ours may cost us P206.57 billion. Yet as hefty as that may look, it actually...
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War on drugs: No EO signed by DU30, a chaos of numbers
By Malou Mangahas, Karol Ilagan, Vino Lucero, and Davinci Maru Philippine Center for Invetsigative Journalism MORE THAN 20 years ago, Davao City was turned into the laboratory for its then Mayor...
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Investigating bad cops: ‘Internal cleansing’ in PNP an internal, secret affair
By Malou Mangahas and Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THEIR TASKS have never really been easy, but President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s war on drugs has most probably made their...
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Cash for drugs, drug kills: How will Duterte pay up?
By Malou Mangahas and Karol Ilagan Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism THERE’S OBVIOUSLY big money in the illegal-drug trade, so much so that it has made criminals even out of some members...
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Drug war lists 20,584 kids as ‘users, pushers, runners’
PNP data, July-August 2016 Drug war lists 20,584 kids as ‘users, pushers, runners’ By Vino Lucero Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism TANAY, Rizal – The fresh wind blowing through the...
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