
Safe roads, not excuses
We love to blame the driver. It is the easiest way to absolve ourselves of a blood-soaked regional highway system. For decades, whenever a breadwinner...

We love to blame the driver. It is the easiest way to absolve ourselves of a blood-soaked regional highway system. For decades, whenever a breadwinner...

Another yellow alert. Another red alert. The Visayas grid has choked for the 30th time this year. Residents are left sweating in Iloilo City while bur...

The cane in Iloilo is eight, maybe nine months old. Harvest is just weeks away. The fields are dying, and the government is holding a 60-day stopwatch...

We celebrated when Western Visayas posted an economic output of PHP 683.44 billion in 2025, but nobody wanted to read the fine print. Services bankrol...

Twenty thousand MORE Power customers lost electricity in a single day last week. Panay had the generation to serve them. It did not matter. The Depart...

It is frankly exhausting to watch local governments repeat the exact same public relations mistakes every time someone questions a high-priced purchas...

The most effective weapon in local politics is not a fiery speech or a well-funded smear campaign. It could be the lowly calendar. Right now, in the h...

Congress passed the Expanded Centenarians Act promising elderly Filipinos a small, dignified acknowledgment – PHP 10,000 at 80, 85, 90, or 95, and PHP...

We love the theater of accountability. Whenever a flood control project goes underwater or a vice president faces impeachment over confidential funds,...