We beg to differ.
The Blue Ribbon Committee hearing yesterday on the anomalous flood control projects didn’t offer much in terms of entertainment value. Erwin Tulfo insisting that the Department of Budget Management (DBM) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) should have a say in how projects are allocated only exhibited his ignorance of the budget…
San Miguel Corporation controls the Philippines’ most extensive private land portfolio through strategic infrastructure projects, with holdings valued at over ₱1 trillion concentrated in flood-prone areas that would dramatically appreciate with improved water management systems. The conglomerate’s 2,500-hectare New Manila International Airport anchors a 12,000-hectare aerotropolis in coastal Bulacan, while proposed Manila Bay reclamation projects…
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” Henry Kissinger President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has concluded his visit to the United States. Marketed as a reaffirmation of “ironclad friendship” between Manila and Washington, the trip was hyped by Malacañang as a breakthrough moment for Philippine economic and security…
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The revolving door at the Presidential Communications Office is a critical vulnerability that is undermining President Marcos’s public trust and legacy. Three years into his presidency, President Marcos has yet to come to terms with his communication team at the PCO, having already sent home three secretaries and placing the fate of the fourth press…
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Why is it that privately employed people like me are required to get accounted down to every single centavo when company money is used? Sara did not have to. And we are talking of billions of pesos. She is just laughing it off. Why is it that when I get carried away with my emotions…
By all appearances, cracks are beginning to show within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and the root of the unrest may lie at the very top of the civilian defense bureaucracy. In a recent radio commentary by veteran broadcast journalist Deo Macalma, the undercurrent of dissatisfaction among the ranks of the military was…
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It is laughable how, at a time when the decades-long insanity of car-centric design of urban spaces is finally losing steam across much of the sane world, some moron chucked another quintessentially-Filipino brainwave to have the EDSA bus lane removed. The lane on the famously clogged highway blocked for exclusive use by public buses was…
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China’s bumper buggy aggression against Philippine maritime vessels in the West Philippine Sea appears to be a reaction to the country’s growing strength in its overall defense posture, one punctuated last month by honors accorded to the Philippine flag at the United States Marine Corps Barracks in Washington DC — its oldest post. Philippine Ambassador…
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