The energy quandary in Panay Island following two power blackouts in January and March 2024 is not just a local concern; it reflects a national issue of infrastructure inadequacy and bureaucratic inertia. Recent lamentations by energy stakeholders, articulated forcefully by Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. and Iloilo City Mayor Jerry
March 8, 2024
In a time when public trust in law enforcement is critically examined, the news of police officers being deployed as personal bodyguards for children of ranking officers or as caretakers for their pets strikes a discordant note with the fundamental purpose of a police force. It is pivotal to emphasize
March 7, 2024
Our past two essays discussed press freedom, responsibility, and self-regulation to protect press freedom. Let’s go further on why accountability and responsibility also redound to our safety. Media accountability is fundamentally linked to the concept of safety, both in terms of public safety and the safety of journalists themselves. This
March 6, 2024
The debate on the limits of freedom of speech, especially in the context of protecting vulnerable sectors, is multifaceted and deeply philosophical, touching on legal, ethical, and social dimensions. Let’s explore key arguments surrounding the balance between upholding free speech and the necessity of safeguarding those who may be disproportionately
March 1, 2024
“With great powers come great responsibility.” – Uncle Ben Parker, Spider-Man We commiserate with our colleagues in RMN-Iloilo for the legal debacle they are facing, particularly the libel suits filed by the regional director of the Department of Education in Western Visayas. As always, this corner is consistent in pushing
February 27, 2024
This is good news for journalists (the conscientious and responsible ones) in a time when the law is used to intimidate truth seekers and tellers (not the foul mouths breathing the mephitic fumes of stupidity) The Supreme Court effectively threw away the 15-year prescriptive period for “cyberlibel” cases based on its
January 23, 2024
Linti is but Hiligaynon for lighting, the flash of electricity that precedes thunder when heavy clouds began breaking into rains. But it becomes a crude word or curse when uttered in derision or anger or other form of heightened emotions. Kalinti is what some news reporters described the so-called 100-day countdown
October 23, 2023
We are now halfway into January 2023, But the questions that abound and beset the sinking P680-million Ungka flyover remain. We have yet to hear a comprehensive explanation on why 3 of the 16 piers or foundations of these major infrastructure sank to the point that it had to be
January 17, 2023
THE torrent of speculations about the P680-Million Ungka Flyover is matched by public anger engendered by its abrupt closure due to engineering issues particularly the settling of three of its piers. The inconvenience it has caused and continues to cause as far as traffic congestion in the Ungka intersection is
January 2, 2023
The race for the presidency of the University of the Philippine system is taking a rather interesting twist. We learned from well-placed sources within the state university that two major fraternities are negotiating the outcome of the election where incumbent UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo is considered a frontrunner what
December 8, 2022
The 2022 “political circus” in the Philippines is slowly taking shape as major political figures laid bare their plans. On Wednesday, President Rodrigo Duterte formally accepted his nomination for vice president by the PDP-Laban faction led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi. “Thank you for the nomination, I am hopeful that
September 9, 2021
By Francis Allan L. Angelo The anti-vaccine plot has a life of its own in the Philippines, according to a Substack newsletter I received from Democracy and Disinformation portal. Funny because a predominantly Catholic country like the Philippines fell for the “falsehoods peddled online by U.S. evangelical Christian groups,” the report said, Read the report
July 7, 2021