NATIONAL
Deception as Governance: Who Does the State Truly Serve? (Editorial)
Photo Courtesy: Bongbong Marcos facebook page If deception were an art form, the present Marcos administration would be its most accomplished practitioner. This government has mastered the politics of diversion—turning scandals into spectacles, crimes into background noise, and public outrage into exhaustion. While Filipinos are drowned in a half-baked impeachment drama, the real scandals—the ones...
REGIONAL
BARMM Groups want some amendatory items to electoral code scrapped
By Jun Aparece COTABATO CITY – Groups representing the sectors mentioned in the Bangsamoro Electoral Code have petitioned the Bangsamoro Transition Authority to scrutinize and scrap some discriminatory provisions in the amendment bill to the electoral code. Fifty-four organizations warned that the amendment bill, the BTA Bill 149 contained provisions that were “highly objectionable, illegal...
OPINION
Deception as Statecraft (THE THIRD EYE by Carlo Manubag)
Photo courtesy: Jay Tarriela, via Facebook. What exactly is PCG spokesperson Jay Tristan Tarriela trying to achieve by spewing distorted narratives, insults, and outright lies against China and President Xi Jinping—at a time when the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Tourism (DOT) are desperately working to approve e-visas and a two-week...
BUSINESS
8-hour power interruption on January 15 in the northern part of Davao City
Davao Light and Power Co., Inc. (Davao Light) will conduct an eight-hour power interruption from 1:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2026, in the northern part of Davao City. This is necessary to facilitate vegetation clearing in Malagamot, Panacan. Specifically affected are customers from Malagamot areas from IPI going to Cambridge Subdivision,...