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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If Sara survives 2026 battered but defiant, she could emerge with exactly the kind of ‘I fought the system’ credentials that supercharge a base.
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Senator Imee Marcos on Wednesday, 07 January 2026, did not mince her words when asked if she is willing to participate in a fresh impeachment attempt against…
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Judge Alvin Hellerstein, 92, repeatedly curtailed Maduro’s statements when he strayed beyond basic procedural matters.
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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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What drives senators and congressmen to steal amounts one cannot spend in a lifetime?
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To Guanzon’s chagrin, Sara refused to bite, realizing perhaps that it was not necessary to combat Claire Castro’s insanity with another kind of crazy.
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To be honest, I couldn’t care less whether or not the reverend father may be into porn or even some kinky stuff.
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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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What began in early 2024 as a Senate probe into possible links between a provincial official and a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub in Tarlac…
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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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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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