Marinduque execs used calamity funds to buy cellphones – COA Marinduque is perhaps the only province in the country that has remained under a state calamity since 2012 after being hit by Typhoon “Ofel”. And now the Commission on Audit (COA) is questioning Gov. Carmencita Reyes why the provincial government used its disaster mitigation fund to purchase 1,300 units of cellular phones that were distributed... READ FULL ARTICLE