Hijacking an airport deal

ority airport sites in the feasibility study, yet it received an allotment in next year’s national budget, while

Three of CamSur’s four representatives to Congress have protested the DOTr’s surprise move to ear Arnulfo Fuentebella, patriarch of a clan that owns vast landholdings in

the second district and a three-term - to have the San Jose budgetary allocation reviewed and reconsid business leaders, and farmers’ associations have expressed their strong Among those against it are six out of 10 mayors in the fourth district—in

Although CamSur has grown tremendously over the past decade, it still doesn’t make sense to have two Jose project would be a waste of public money since previous studies showed it is not viable, especially because the center of trade and tour

Transparency and citizen participation were clearly absent in the sudden decision to build a new - tions were conducted, nor were any exhaustive studies made regarding

Villafuerte also discovered that the Partido Development Administration (PDA), a government-owned corporation controlled by the Fuentebellas, wrote the CamSur provincial asses appraisals for certain areas to be cov

“This only shows that there is no prior planning or surveying for the project, which makes it unworthy to be given a budget,” Villafuerte said, adding: “The Naga Airport, whose upgrading and expansion are in always been given a budget for the

PDA has been mired in irregulari- ties and saddled with more than P1 billion in debt after years of alleged that being a nonviable project, the proposed San Jose Airport would end up—similar to the PDA—as

Coming after the right-of-way exposed in Southern Mindanao, this looks like another land scam in the needs funds to carry out its “Build, Build, Build” program and cannot nonfeasible airport project in 2018, when the Philippines’ golden age of Theauthorischieffinancialofficer(CFO)oftheAsianCenter forLegalExcellenceandservesas co-chairmanoftheFINEXMedia