Open Bicam, same old tricks
Hard pork in the form of infrastructure spending remained alive despite assurances that discretionary allocations were being stripped away.
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A mother’s love
In golf, a caddie’s job is to navigate the hazards and find the best path to the hole. Legaspi has been doing that for David in a literal…
Leaders speak as one, finally
On the sidelines, Marcos and Vietnam’s Prime Minister Lê Minh Hêng agreed to establish a long-term rice trade mechanism.
Cebu must be more than a talk shop
Across the region, governments should resist the temptation to simply subsidize their way through the crisis.
Put Marcos formula in play
Enough is enough. ASEAN and China have danced around a binding CoC for so long while Beijing’s gray-zone aggression escalates.
Motherland
As the country struggles to keep the economy afloat in these times of political strife and a fuel crisis, this mother-focused celebration…
Blue Ribbon trash
While Lacson defended the report, its detractors called it performative, protecting Marcos and his allies while scapegoating mid-level…
9-Dash(ole)
History. What history? The convenient kind? The one that expands exactly where the oil, ships, reefs, and military advantage are, and…
Greed, failures feed pain
For decades, the country has pinned its hopes on foreign investments and open markets to drive development. Record inflows of over $100…
On knife’s edge: U.S.-Iran Ceasefire
The most likely near-term scenario is more of the same: the conditional ceasefire extended pending talks, with almost no shipping through…
Grand Theft Inc.
When people call on the President, Vice President, and other top officials to release their SALNs, the response is often delay, deflection,…
Criminals in training?
A child who cycles through multiple interventions can appear, statistically, as multiple first-time cases, or not at all.
Public’s due: Real trial
Six years of near-zero cash declarations, contradicted by actual banking flows, is hard to attribute to oversight. It looks like…
Man of ‘soon’
If patients are still being referred out, they don’t feel Level 2. They feel Level ‘go somewhere else.’
ES owes public reckoning
Recto’s departure would affirm that accountability matters, even when courts stop short of criminal findings.
Host responsibly
When the country invests millions in a tournament, it is doing so on the promise that the event will bring prestige and development.
Evil’s root
The Court insisted on aggregate revenue targets, or on total collections exceeding projections, before UA funds can be released.
Tilting at windmills, or turning the tide?
What Santa Marta represents is not a solution but a new political architecture: a space outside the paralyzed consensus of the UN system…