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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Money doesn’t sit in one pocket. It percolates carefully, coordinated. Lawmakers insert. Contractors overprice. Engineers approve. Budget officials release the…
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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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If this is persecution versus Sara, someone call Guanzon — she’ll show them how it’s done.
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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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A slim majority of Filipinos want action now on political dynasties.
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If the projects are not the product of rational planning, technical assessment, and genuine need, but instead are the result of political patronage, the…
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In our country, 2025 was one such terrible year. Especially for the President. What’s sad for him is that most of his troubles were self-inflicted.
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Fifty-four percent of Filipinos support the immediate passage of a law banning political dynasties in the Philippines, according to a Pulse Asia survey…
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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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The controversy erupted after Santos made the following comment during the interview, following relentless online criticism of her and her husband.
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Jobs and prices led to the freefall of the president’s approval ratings, which an analyst said was among the lowest levels in contemporary political history.
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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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