
2025: Floods, fractures and fortitude
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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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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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to break long-standing tradition and confer the Israel Prize on U.S. President Donald Trump is being…
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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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Accountability requires confronting wrongdoing, not to shame, but to correct.
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This broken promise carries consequences. It directly undermines the President’s credibility and the potency of his anti-corruption platform. Likewise, it…
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The end of the holiday should not signal the end of reflection, but the beginning of resolve about finally eradicating corruption.
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Isa na namang commissioner ng Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI) ang aalis sa ahensya.
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The Marcos administration and Congress have long stopped worrying about what they can do to better the lives of our people and grow our nation. They now only…
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The Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed the conviction of three police officers for the killing of 17-year-old Kian de los Santos during an anti-drug operation in…
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When police later confirmed that it was indeed Cabral, and that the initial finding pointed to suicide, the doubts did not disappear; they merely shifted.
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By and large, the ICI failed the litmus test of unquestionable independence and abandoned the guiding tenets of transparency and accountability.
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The National Police Commission (Napolcom) is set to declare the total resolution of its case backlog by the end of the year, clearing a bottleneck of…
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The former SC associate justice said the Senate’s actions, along with other institutions invoking privilege, have entrenched impunity.
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