
SC asked to remove UAs from 2026 budget
‘These provisions were meant to safeguard transparency and accountability. Expediency alone should not override them.’
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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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Former Palace spokesperson Harry Roque has submitted a memorandum to the Supreme Court on behalf of Davao City Rep. Paolo Z. Duterte,…
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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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A starstruck First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos basked in the presence of America’s Got Talent ( AGT ) 2025 Champion Jessica Sanchez at Malacañang before the New…
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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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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spent New Year’s Eve at Malacañang, a detail underscored by Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Claire Castro in what appeared…
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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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Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Claire Castro drew mixed — and heated — reactions online after likening Vice President Sara Duterte’s expression to a…
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