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During a recent Senate hearing, Dizon said that the DPWH had so far identified 10 ghost projects nationwide, but none of those 10 was located in Taguig.

The investigation in Taguig, we have just started and it's still ongoing, Dizon said, noting the initial report mentioned discrepancies involving geographical coordinates, including one that pointed to an area in Leyte.

The projects, he added, involved payments to contractor St. Timothy Construction Corporation, owned by embattled couple Curly and Sarah Deskaya.

We have to validate.

He cited the DPWH's analysis of potentially similar billing photographs from Taguig projects from 2017 to 2025.

Of 15,523 images processed using an AI-based image similarity detection system, 1,079 pairs were flagged for high visual similarity, involving 180 unique contracts.

Over the weekend, Luxon disclosed details of a slope protection along Taguig River project, Contract ID 220BO106, whose geotagged billing photos contain coordinates pointing to Leyte province, about 600 kilometers from Taguig.

Records showed three locations in Tacloban City reflected in the photographs.

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Luxon Presses Dizon Over Taguig Project Luxon Presses Dizon Over Taguig Project Senator Ponfilo Luxon on Sunday asked Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon to explain why billing photographs for a Taguig project carried geotagged coordinates pointing to Leyte.

In a social media post, Luxon cited a Department of Public Works and Highways, DPWH, inspection report on Contract ID 220BO106, which found that geotagged photographs attached to billing reports contain coordinates outside the verified project limits.

The report said the contract metadata reflected coordinates approximately 600 kilometers away in Leyte province.

Secretary, Vince Dizon, please explain how this finding of your own team should not be flagged as a ghost project in Taguig.

Since when has Taguig been located in Leyte? Luxon said.

Luxon also flags St. Timothy Construction, the project contractor, which is owned by the Disgaea family, whose companies have been linked to scandal-laden flood control projects.

To further highlight the red flag, Disgaea's St. Timothy is the contractor.

Luxon presses Dizon over Taguig project.

Senator Ponfilo Luxon on Sunday asked Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon to explain why billing photographs for a Taguig project carried geotag coordinates pointing to Leyte.

In a social media post, Luxon cited a Department of Public Works and Highways, DPWH, inspection report on Contract ID 220B0106, which found that geotagged photographs attached to billing reports contain coordinates outside the verified project limits.

The report said the contract metadata reflected coordinates approximately 600 kilometers away in Leyte province.

Luxon also flagged St. Timothy Construction, the project contractor, which is owned by the Diskaya family, whose companies have been linked to scandal-laden flood control projects.

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And after the war, they had a very prominent, they became senators, congressmen, secretaries, you know.

Kang Leon, Roberto Kang Leon, the big guerrilla leader in Leyte, the one who welcomed MacArthur.

He became a senator and he became a Secretary of National Defense as well in the 1950s.

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So you imagine when the Filipino government says, I need to get a loan in dollars.

from an international institution to build the schools in Leyte.

That's a ludicrous statement.

Schools in Leyte, you don't need dollars.

You might need two dollars for whatever reason, but what you need is peso.

And the government, together with its banker, which is the central bank in any country, all has peso, all the pesos it wants to.

He destroyed enemy aircraft over the refineries and the Philippine Sea while under heavy fire, protecting bomber formations that desperately needed fighter cover.

On December 12, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur stood in front of a formation at Tacloban on Leyte in the Philippines and pinned the Congressional Medal of Honor on Richard Bong.

MacArthur, who was not a man given to understatement about anything, called Bong the greatest aviator in the world.

Bong's kill total at that moment stood at 40.

There was Luzon in the north, the largest island and home to half the Philippine population.

There was Mindanao in the south, the second largest island, and there was Leyte in the middle.

Why Leyte? Leyte is not the third largest island, as you might expect.

Nearby Samar is the third largest.

Leyte is only the eighth largest.

But Leyte is an obvious choice for an amphibious landing.

It lies on the eastern side of the archipelago, near the middle, Mindanao is just a short distance away to the south, and Samar lies within spitting distance to the north.

Best of all, from an invader's point of view, are the open waters to the east of Leyte, called the Leyte Gulf.