
SALN for all, period
There is something oddly familiar about SALN season in government offices. It is not dramatic. No headlines. Just stacks of forms, quiet sighs, and th...

There is something oddly familiar about SALN season in government offices. It is not dramatic. No headlines. Just stacks of forms, quiet sighs, and th...

Let’s admit it, we pretend to be shocked by bare skin but secretly we are just uncomfortable with our own contradictions. I saw my neighbor early in t...

THE last time I met President Roel Z. Castro of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), he enthused about his dream of bringing about “One Iloilo,...

IT’S unavoidable. We should not be surprised by it. In fact, we should expect it. But let’s see to it that we do not get lost. We should still be clea...

There is something oddly personal about remembering Pope Francis a year after he passed. Not distant, not formal—more like remembering a lolo who sat ...

Here we go again. Less than a year after President Marcos signed Republic Act 12232 pushing the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) fro...

Two public markets in the Visayas – one in Cebu City, the other in Iloilo City – are forcing Filipinos to confront an uncomfortable question: Who is u...

There is a certain hour in Iloilo Central Market when everything feels most real. Not during the speeches, not during the tours, but early—when the fi...

In the Parable of the Foolish Rich Man we read the story of how God treats people who are attached to their wealth. “And he told them this parable: T...