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Portrait of Nick V. Quijano Jr.

Nick V. Quijano Jr.

Presently a 47-year journalism veteran with various reportorial, editing, and editorial management experience.

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DEFENSE Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro

Gibo’s strategic candor

By all accounts, Teodoro’s candor drew positive domestic attention and support that provoked Senator Ping Lacson to tease a future ‘President Teodoro.’

Illness scheme

Illness scheme

Variations on the wheelchair routine flourished, usually including hospital detention, which notably former president Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada made trendy.

Corralling Facebook

Corralling Facebook

Experts say the settlement is a crucial turning point that dramatically puts ‘controls on a powerful tech company,’ and how its largely unregulated social…

Bad executioners

Bad executioners

The grief doesn’t even include the ceaseless horrors over the unresolved massive corruption, official or unofficial, attending scores of wrecked flood control…

The Senate during the impeachment trial against Vice President Sara Duterte last Wednesday, 10 August.

Trial by jury

There are strong suspicions our authoritarian-enamored, cynical feudalistic/dynastic families, without ever admitting it, still harbor secularized notions of…

Rage bait

Rage bait

We’re also assuming that the principal, as well as other teachers with similar tendencies, was as screen-addled as the rest of us.

Super El Niño

Super El Niño

Though not a recognized scientific term and more like a Marvel villain, the ‘super El Niño’ is nonetheless an event not to doomscroll past without worry.

SENATE President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson

Different rainfall alert

Behind the monstrous corruption lurks another tough opponent many have discounted: politics.

Minerals governance

Minerals governance

As one anti-mining advocate explains, mining regulation only refers to the process of taking minerals out of the ground and profiting from it, while minerals…

Personnel work through the rain to clear a massive buildup of garbage from the Redemptorist Water Channel in Parañaque City on Tuesday afternoon, 11 August. | Aram Lascano

Garbage woes

By all accounts, Metro Manila generates the most garbage in the country, about 25 percent. But only 85 percent of that total waste is collected and disposed…