Opinions and Editorials

UNRAVELING By GETSY TIGLAO OVERLOOKED (or ignored) again by the country’s mainstream media was the Department of Health’s startling revelation of a multi-billion peso anomalous…

A total of 4,279 drug suspects have been killed in the government’s anti-drugs campaign since 2016. “These are the real numbers,” Presidential Communication Operations Office…

By Jullie Y. Daza   What, not a holiday today to mark the birthday of Dr. Jose Rizal? Too many holidays and long weekends can…

By John Tria   In the results of the latest 2015 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), the highest incomes and expditures belong to families…

By Hector R. R. Villanueva   “Governments need both shepherds and butchers.” — Voltaire   President Rodrigo Roa Duterte likes to be idolized and popular…

By Floro L. Mercene   The current squabble between pro-American and pro-Chinese factions in the country may have taken a turn for the worste lately…