“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”—ELIE WIESEL IF we steal two hens or peanut butter and bread and we get caught, we will be hauled off to jail like El Lute, Spain’s most wanted criminal
September 23, 2025
“One person’s embarrassment is another person’s accountability.” — Tom Price ILONGGOS are not used to seeing or hearing their representatives both in the Lower and Upper chambers of Congress being dragged into scandal and anomaly. On the contrary, they are accustomed to watching their Iloilo representatives excel as lawmakers—as debaters and
September 10, 2025
“I wish…I wish I were dead…And what use would that be to anyone?” ―J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows THE daily distress and melancholy being experienced by flood-control project contractors involved in anomalous transactions worth billions of pesos with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) must now be
September 4, 2025
“When you don’t take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.” — Kamal Haasan LET’S hope no Iloilo solon is involved in the ongoing “sweeping” investigation called by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on the multi-billion pesos flood-control projects anomaly. The connivance among several corrupt members of the House of RepresentaTHIEVES,
September 2, 2025
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” — Charlie Chaplin FILIPINOS are mad and impatient. And they are demanding justice. Already, most of them have concluded that the controversial Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) contractor couple in the Philippines who paraded their 40 luxury
September 1, 2025
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” —Alexander the Great IF he can’t put one DPWH official in jail, especially the corrupt district engineers and contractors who stole billions of pesos in taxpayers’ money
August 30, 2025
“Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.” — Newt Gingrich FILIPINOS never ran out of scandals and controversies. From golden arinola (bedpan) scandal that nearly resulted
August 22, 2025
“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.” —Ray Davies SWIFT justice? Yes, if there is such thing. Prolong investigations? No way. We aren’t convinced anymore especially
August 21, 2025
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.” —Karl Kraus IT is often said that “if there is no money, there is no honey”, or simply “no money, no honey.” It essentially means that without financial
August 16, 2025
“The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.” —Miguel Syjuco THE decision of the executive branch not to propose funding for the Ayuda para sa Kapong ang Kita Program (AKAP)
August 15, 2025
“Let’s hope that if ever courageous media networks or newspapers will expose the involvement of lawmakers, or any public official for that matter, in this gargantuan scandal and anomaly of epic proportions, no solon, mayor, governor, or even senator will storm their radio stations and editorial offices like what we experienced
August 14, 2025
