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Be smarter than scammers

Be smarter than scammers

This shift recognizes a fundamental truth – scams are behavioral attacks as much as they are technological ones.

A forecast is not reform

A forecast is not reform

Shifts in implementing rules and the leadership at key agencies create uncertainty that discourages long-term investment planning.

Electricity without bill shocks

Electricity without bill shocks

Volatility in generation costs can change rapidly, but consumer incomes do not adjust as quickly.

Drilling hope, not discounts

Drilling hope, not discounts

Pricing gas below global market levels simply because it is produced locally would undermine project viability and deter future exploration.

Snip the crime, not the cables

Snip the crime, not the cables

Public participation is crucial and Meralco’s repeated calls for citizens to report suspicious activity around electrical facilities is not corporate…

Pulling the handbrake on progress

Pulling the handbrake on progress

When incentives are withdrawn without a transition plan, the risk is not just slower car production — it is weakened supply chains and stalled investments…

2026: No room for failure

2026: No room for failure

Across chambers and industry groups, the message is strikingly consistent — the economy does not need more laws or slogan.

Ending 2025 with a clear, new hope

Ending 2025 with a clear, new hope

If 2025 had a defining theme, it was accountability. The public demanded it loudly yet it was offered unevenly by those in power.

Cells before carols

Cells before carols

In a country battered regularly by typhoons, corruption in disaster mitigation is not merely theft — it is negligence with potentially deadly consequences.

PBBM pushes reform; we await solons’ move

PBBM pushes reform; we await solons’ move

These bills are not silver bullets. But they can restart long-stalled reforms and inject a measure of accountability into a system that desperately needs it.