So long as the government fails to provide the most basic social safety nets — universal healthcare, efficient disaster response, accessible justice, and equitable economic opportunities — corruption will remain the language of survival. The void left by a weak and unreliable state does not stay empty for long; it is quickly filled by patronage…
Photo courtesy: Veejay Villafranca/Bloomberg Across the vast economic landscape of Asia, the Philippine stock market stands out—not for triumph, but for tragedy. It is the lone red mark in a sea of growth, plunging by 19% this year. This sharp decline is not merely a number on a trading screen; it mirrors the deepening crisis…
📸Anadolu So it seems, the mere whisper of death penalty for corruption already sends shivers down the spines of some lawmakers. How interesting — and how revealing. When a proposal aims to hang those who plunder public funds, suddenly the defenders of “human rights” awaken. The same people who turn blind eyes to the millions…
Photo courtesy: Philippine Army The 6.9-magnitude earthquake that devastated northeastern Cebu, with Bogo City as its epicenter, left unimaginable destruction—homes reduced to rubble, livelihoods crushed, and lives tragically lost. The ground may have stopped shaking, but the pain and despair of the victims remain. And yet, what compounds their suffering is not just the disaster…
Photo courtesy: AP “Sworn to Protect, Yet Serving the Corrupt” It is clearly mandated under Section 3 of the Constitution that civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military, and that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shall be the “protector of the people and the State”. This is not a mere…
In Photo: R. A. Pahati Construction & Supply Company started reconstructing the ₱86.5 -million flood control project following DPWH Sec. Vinzons warning he will haul everyone involved in anomalous construction to Court. The project was earlier reported as completed with a rating of “Very Satisfactory”. By Oliver Autor Asuncion, Davao del Norte – The series of…
When truth threatens power, it is never confronted with courage. Instead, it is smothered, twisted, and drowned under a carefully orchestrated noise machine. This is exactly what we see in the ongoing investigations in the Senate and the House of Representatives, where corruption in flood control projects and budget insertions should have been exposed with…
The anti- Duterte propagandists some of them pretending to be political analysts are in full throttle to divert the issues surfounding the ghost and substandard flood control projects and the hundreds of billions of pesos paid to at least 15 contractors. They made a big issue of ₱51-billion infrastructure budget for Davao City’s District 1…
Manuel Bonoan can be anything but not as Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways . Under questioning from Sen. Marcoleta he admitted that there were ghost flood control projects which cost taxpayers billions of pesos. He knew who are the crooks behind the grand heist but not until he testified in the…
Photo courtesy: RTVM Malacanang through its spokesperson, Kler Castro, is into passing the buck pastime. Trying to be smart in an attempt to shield her boss from the magma of problems the administration is facing, she quipped that the travels of Vice President Sara Duterte will not solve the problem of the country. With that…
