Frustrated university students demand accountability
BACOLOR, Pampanga — Stranded in flooded dormitories with classes suspended, freshmen at Pampanga State University expressed growing anger Tuesday over…
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BACOLOR, Pampanga — Stranded in flooded dormitories with classes suspended, freshmen at Pampanga State University expressed growing anger Tuesday over…
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Government must ensure that every peso allocated for flood control is accounted for, with real-time transparency and public access to project status.
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A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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Kickbacks are illegal; it is a fact, but who is to stop this practice when it has become almost institutional?
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The zarzuela, which is meant to lift the profile of the administration while getting back at political foes, has the overall effect of rewarding grand-scale…
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The suitcase story needs to be investigated, not demolished, amid a wave of coordinated attacks by allies of those who have been implicated.
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The decision to put off the investigation is to prevent the Ombudsman’s ongoing probe from being prejudiced.
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The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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Former Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan had discretion over a P10-billion lump-sum fund set aside supposedly for lawmakers seeking…
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‘There are questions that he isn’t answering properly.’
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This time his speechwriter must have, in devil-may-care fashion, put in reverse order the main culprits in the epic floodgate scandal.
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For a country whose vast population queues for hours for P20 per kilo subsidized rice, one cannot help but ask if satellites can be eaten.
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The President has only two years left in his term. Two years to turn promises into reality. Two years to rebuild the trust that has all but evaporated.
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A SoNA delivered with two years remaining of a six-year term should be judged not only on how well emergencies were handled, but on how many fewer emergencies…
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A day before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SoNA), a civic group challenged the administration to explain what it…
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Where evidence exists, charges should be filed. Where it does not, political rivalry, public suspicion, or participation in budget deliberations cannot…
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Days before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s State of the Nation Address (SoNA), government investigators are set to conduct a preliminary investigation at the…
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Notably, expelled Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co publicly accused Marcos and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez of receiving billions of pesos in kickbacks from…
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