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Interior and Local Government Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento announced that a total of 26,367 slum dwelling families are set for relocation this year in line with the Aquino government’s commitment to provide safer and more decent homes for Metro Manila’s Informal Settler Families (ISF). 

The P59.81-million Poro Point baywalk and events center project inside the freeport zone in San Fernando, La Union, will have its soft opening on February 14. 

Budget Secretary Florencio B. Abad disclosed that the government has appropriated P6.5 billion in the 2016 Genaral Appropriations Act (GAA) for the rehabilitation and upgrading of provincial roads in 73 provinces all over the country in a project called Konkreto at Ayos na Lansangan at Daan Tungo sa Pangkalahatang Kaunlaran (Kalsada). 

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) is inviting interested local and international groups to participate in the bidding of the P65.09 billion Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 6 project under the Philippine Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program. 

The World Bank (WB) has approved a new contingent line of credit to support the Philippines’s efforts to manage the risks posed by natural disasters. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo  The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) board has approved the unsolicited proposal of Metro Pacific Group for the NLEx-SLEx Connector Road project under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. 

  By Weng C. Ocfemia Party list Rep. Juan R. Revilla has asked the House committees on public works and highways and good government and public accountability to investigate how a Spanish contractor allegedly involved in a number of rigged bids and anomalous transactions in Spain, the United States and Mexico was allowed to participate in the implementation of government …

More than 100 people were killed and nearly 400 others were injured when a crane fell onto Mecca’s Grand Mosque during a rainstorm on Sept. 11. 

  The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is determined to complete next year the P112-million circumferential road in the historic island town of Limasawa, Southern Leyte. 

After two years, the rehabilitation efforts of the government in areas devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas region registered an accomplishment of only 30.3 percent while 33.1 percent are still on-going and will be ready for completion by 2016.