WE don’t need a survey to know that most Filipino wage earners need better income to cope with increasing prices of prime commodities. Even we who consider ourselves “middle class” do not earn enough to buy all our needs and wants. It may be logical that Senators Bam Aquino and Risa Hontiveros
October 15, 2025
THERE is an obvious reason why former president Rodrigo Duterte’s legal counsel — British-Israeli lawyer Nicholas Kaufman — has been trying hard to stall his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for “crimes against humanity. My opinion is that he sees no chance of overturning the prosecution’s evidence.
October 13, 2025
IF Christianity were an effective catalyst for change, the Philippines would be full of Christ-like individuals. Government officials would be walking their “pro-people” talk. Church leaders and followers would ostracize oppressive politicians. Graft and corruption would vanish. With few criminals, we would take pride in being the only Christian nation in Asia.
October 10, 2025
WAS Senator Alan Peter Cayetano serious when he challenged his fellow legislators in the Senate and House of Representatives to resign due to “declining public trust in political leaders?” He proposed a “fresh start” through a snap election that would cover President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Vice President Sara Duterte and all senators
October 8, 2025
THE way the British-Israeli lawyer of former president Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte handles his case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, it is obvious that he does not have what it takes to prove him “not guilty of crimes against humanity.” You see, he has been moving heaven and earth to
October 6, 2025
MY fearless prediction is that the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague will not grant the Philippine Senate’s resolution asking it to move former president Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte out of the Scheveningen prison and place him under house arrest elsewhere for “humanitarian considerations.” Fifteen senators approved Resolution No. 144 on Oct.
October 3, 2025
IF YOU are one of us senior citizens, you would not always welcome the privilege of “enjoying” discounts on prescription drugs. Sickness is never enjoyable, no matter how cheaper the medicines cost. A truly healthy person needs no medicine to get by. But do we have a better choice whenever the need
September 29, 2025
THIS corner lauds the Iloilo Provincial Board for its resolution expressing full support for Dr. Joseph Dean Nicolo, chief of the Western Visayas Medical Center, who could have been reassigned to a smaller hospital in Zamboanga due to a politician’s interference. The resolution, authored by Board Member Rolando Distura, cited numerous awards
September 26, 2025
AS I was writing this yesterday, super typhoon Nando was weakening and moving out of the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR), according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). No typhoon signal has been raised in Western Visayas. But as PAGASA admits, there is a clear indication that Western
September 24, 2025
“I might be out on the streets if I were not president.” Those words were spoken by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in a press conference a week ago. I remembered those words yesterday morning (Sept. 21) while scanning the TV channels for activities unfolding on the “Trillion Peso March,” a multisectoral nationwide protest to call
September 22, 2025
THE “Trillion Peso March” — unfolding nationwide on Sunday to condemn graft and corruption in the implementation of the government’s flood-control projects — coincides with the 53rd anniversary of the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Sr. on September 21, 1972. If he were not the sitting president, President Ferdinand
September 19, 2025