Echoes From

  EVERYONE was greeting happy New Year when 2020 entered. There was so much jubilation and there are expectations of...

  THE title above is not a take-off from the 1982 Australian romantic film; it’s about events, coming in all...

  NERVE-JARRING and poten­tially an economic disaster, the water problem in Metro Ma­nila has spilled over to the Philip­pine Stock...

  BRIDGES generally con­note progress. The proposed bridge connecting Caticlan and Boracay Island in Aklan, however, can lead to the...

  THIS week has been specially memorable for the provincial media. Amid the challenges they face and the dangers that...

    WITH the advent of internet and social media, the rural press, in its purest sense, has nearly lost...

  RECENT separate reports from the World Meteorological Orga­nization (WMO), the UN Inter­national Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and...

  OVER the last few months, the country’s agriculture sector had to absorb a series of whammies it did not...

  THE damage inflicted on the Philippine National Police follow­ing the involvement of some of its officials in high-profile cases...

  THE annual budget debate that predictably gives rise again to animosity between the Senate and the House is sure...

  IT’S a pity that the person who represents the police and its campaign against illegal drugs, as exposed in...

  IT all started when Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, a former CIDG chief, spilled the beans in the Senate...

  THROUGHOUT its entire exis­tence, the Duterte administra­tion has mastered, consciously or otherwise, the art of self-infliction, hurting itself when...

  THERE are many encouraging legislative initiatives in Congress that promise to generate substan­tive and meaningful development for our country....

  IN recent weeks, the touchy is­sue of releasing inmates from penitentiaries under the GCTA (good conduct time allowance) law...

  ALBAY Rep. Joey Salceda obvi­ously got irritated by policy disagreements among Cabinet officials on the Corporate Income Tax and...