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 herd of Wagyu Cattle which we acquired from the Alzona Farms in October last year is doing well even in the hot climate of Barangay Glamang, Polomolok, South Cotabato where temperature could be as high as as 40°C. In just a year, the cows have already produced at least 10 calves while the others…
Corruption, failed economy by sheer incompetence and toxic politics in the upper echelons of power are the main ingredients that had prompted the citizens of Indonesia, Nepal and France to come together in a massive protest and indignation against the current government leadership. What brought them to the streets are too familiar. The only difference…
Will President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. finally drop the albatross on his back and throw his lot behind a brewing coup that seeks to topple Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez? That’s the question on many people’s minds as the avalanche of bad press continues to heavily weigh down the Marcos administration arising from the multi-billion flood control…
It doesn’t take a lawyer for the ordinary Filipino to recognize the glaring inconsistencies in the sworn statement of the Discayas. At first glance, it already reeks of selectivity—names are dropped sparingly, as if chosen with care, while others are conveniently left in the shadows. The very phrase “ilan po sa kanila” (some of them)…
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings account? I rest my case.” – Robert G Allen Very few of us in life will become rich quick. Unless, of course, you are a shady DPWH contractor, a “nepo” baby or a corrupt politician, who can amass billions in one…
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…
The newly appointted DPWH Sec. Vince Dizon is facing a gargantuan task of thoroughly overhauling the graft and corruption – ridden department. It would be easier to simply excise the agency and transfer its functions including its budget to other departments or devolved to the local government units. But it is easier said than done….
Screen grab from: AP Every monsoon that batters our land does more than unleash rain—it exposes the rot in governance. Floodwaters rise not because nature is cruel, but because billions supposedly spent on flood-control projects were stolen through ghost contracts, fake contractors, and sham infrastructure. Lives, homes, livelihoods, and small businesses are washed away while…
In the deeply divided Philippine Politics where groups are identified by their political loyalties as Dilawans (now Pinklawans), DDS or Loyalists, it is almost unthinkable for a prominent personality to be able to move on from his association with a previous administration and occupy a sensitive role in the next. But Vivencio “Vince” Dizon, the…
