MANILA, Philippines—It’s time to clean up the bureaucracy, and one agency that needs to go is the Road Board, which serves as just another unnecessary layer in the process of using the taxes collected from motorists to…
MANILA, Philippines—The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and the World Bank (WB) have teamed up with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to push for road sector reforms in the Philippines. In a statement issued…
Dump trucks, payloaders, graders and other road-clearing equipment belonging to private contractors outnumber those deployed by the government in areas devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” This was disclosed to the Inquirer by a top official of the Department…
The bidding process for a major public private partnership deal—the 47-kilometer Cavite-Laguna Expressway—is progressing smoothly with the government prequalifying three out of four interested groups Monday. Allowed to proceed to the next stage in the bid for…
At least five major infrastructure projects will be completed under the public-private partnership (PPP) framework and several others likely to be in full blast of construction before President Aquino steps down from office in 2016, the chief…
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is finalizing auction plans for three more major toll roads—two located south of Metro Manila and another north of the capital—set for the second half of 2014. According to…
