Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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No Way To Dump Pork In 2026 Budget

DESPITE THE transparency theatrics, political capture of the budget remains intact. Hundreds of billions of pesos are still embedded in pork-like discretionary allocations, fragmented...

Report: Online Scammers P4T Richer In 2025

NOT EVEN THE enactment of laws primarily designed to prevent cybercrimes seemed enough to keep the country safe from modern-day con artists, says a...

An Echo Beyond One’s Life Value

EIGHT YEARS AFTER a 17-year-old student was dragged into a dark alley and shot dead, justice has finally spoken with clarity and finality. In December...

Leviste Tagged For Spreading Hearsay

FOLLOWING ALLEGATIONS DRAGGING several Cabinet secretaries into the so-called budget insertions for infrastructure projects, Malacanang took a swipe at a neophyte congressman for allegedly...

Dawla Islamiya To Strike Again

THE GOVERNMENT WILL have to wrap up its purge against crooks in the soonest possible time if only to prepare for another battle, this...

SSS Sets Pension Hike, Microloan

AT THE ONSET of 2026, the Social Security System (SSS) boasted of its new and improved services and programs, combining new financial initiatives, nationwide...

Lingering Fury, Selective Purge

TWO ADMINISTRATIONS — those of Rodrigo Duterte and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. — exposed the massive systemic corruption at the Department of Public Works and...

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