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Bongbong receives intelligence. That does not make his office an intelligence agency. Otherwise, every Cabinet secretary would qualify for secret funds.
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Bongbong receives intelligence. That does not make his office an intelligence agency. Otherwise, every Cabinet secretary would qualify for secret funds.
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The challenge for 2026 remains: How do we ensure that our aggressive push for a ‘Digital Philippines’ doesn’t inadvertently become a digital divide?
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Successful investigations and governance reforms addressing corruption are critical to restoring investor confidence in capital markets, according to…
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‘These provisions were meant to safeguard transparency and accountability. Expediency alone should not override them.’
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The public interest is best protected when institutions take the time to do things properly, especially when the stakes involve billions in public funds and…
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What people are still waiting for are the big fish. The elected officials. The senators and congressmen whose names have come up repeatedly in testimony, leaks…
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This year, don’t let your anger be a fleeting ‘like’ or a ‘share.’ Let it be the fuel for a more engaged citizenship.
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Senate hearings flare up, some low-level engineers take the fall, but the deal’s architecture stays standing.
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A new year is more than a fresh calendar; it is an opportunity to recommit to the values that drew me to public service.
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The real culprits in the flood control project mess that President Bongbong Marcos promised would spend Christmas in jail are still out there. Does justice…
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With the country shaken by a massive corruption scandal involving powerful lawmakers, urgency demands that KPIs begin in Congress, where accountability is…
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By the time 2025 drew to a close, the Philippines was grappling with more than floods and earthquakes — it was facing a year where politics, institutions,…
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Neophyte Congressman Javier Miguel Benitez of Negros Occidental said the ratified P6.7-trillion 2026 national budget was designed with stronger safeguards to…
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In a way, the establishment of the ICI was like saying the National Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, and the Office of the Ombudsman were…
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Is there hope for systemic change in this country? Ultimately, the nation needs to see genuine justice rendered, not just a show of it.
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If 2025 had a defining theme, it was accountability. The public demanded it loudly yet it was offered unevenly by those in power.
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Nanawagan si Batangas First District Representative Leandro Leviste sa Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) na ilabas sa publiko ang opisyal na kopya…
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Malacañang on Sunday leaned into what critics have dismissed as a revisionist spin, insisting that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s warning of a “sad…
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