No safe passage
Two Filipino seafarers aboard the Saudi-flagged tanker Sidr were killed late Monday when the vessel was struck while transiting the strait.
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EDITORIAL
Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Make ICI report public now
If the DoJ or the Ombudsman has concerns about prejudicing the trial, redact what must be redacted and say so, specifically, in public.
Ramon‘s Ark
Of all places, you picked Bulacan. Where the first question was about the water. Before your airport, that low land gave some of that water…
No budget safe with thieves
The sliver of fiscal space is almost exactly equal to what the government owes in interest payments alone for the coming year.
Now he has one
He cannot become more President. He is already at maximum President. There’s no President of all Presidents, nor a new and improved…
Where’s the master plan?
A master plan that addresses only rainfall and ignores garbage, housing and encroachment is not a comprehensive program that would respond…
Mideast Crisis: Battering’s far from over
It is projected that continued conflict in the Middle East could push an additional 20.9 million people into poverty across 20 developing…
Who’s afraid of Col. Lachica?
If a lawyer knows a witness will hurt his case, he keeps that witness off the stand.
Let Filipinos eat savings
Filipinos don’t need Remolona’s lecture on humility. We need paychecks that survive contact with the grocery, the rent and the tricycle…
Conscience, evidence, nothing else
Set beside the Erap impeachment trial, the Corona trial of 2012 looked, on its surface, like vindication: A chief justice accused of hiding…
Portents
Nature does not stop for our convenience, and certainly, we cannot control the rain. But we can control how vulnerable we are every time it…
Curiouser and curiouser
The bill already passed third reading in the Senate. That was seven months ago. It has also cleared committee in the House. It waits on…
Politics over national interest
Filipino athletes are giving their best to make the country proud. The most our government officials can do is support them by giving them…
Pork carte blanche
A reenacted budget widens the opportunity for patronage money, and it does so with less legislative oversight attached.
A call vs autonomous weapons
The more urgent question is what happens once this technology escapes state control entirely. The chilling answer: It already has, in…
Tipping point
Each week the Court stays silent is a week the UA hardens into place, unquestioned, on its way to becoming law.
Next EV Hub of Asia
God willing, in Bongbong’s tomorrow, there will be no floods; God willing, we’ll be on Mars.
Ingenious crooks, nation‘s scourge
What gets built, if anything at all, is a structure constructed badly, cheaply and often not where the people needed it — a waste layered…