Editorial
2 separate departments for environment, natural resources
IN the last Congress, a bill was filed in the House of Representatives to split the Department of Environment and...
Read moreTraffic problem passes on to new administration
WHEN the new administration assumes office on June 30, just six days from today, the new officials will be moving...
Read moreA Con-con at the start of the new administration
THERE are three ways by which amendments to the Philippine Constitution may be proposed. One is by Congress, upon a...
Read moreThe Florida massacre: implications for Mindanao
FILIPINOS have been following developments in the recent mass killing in Orlando, Florida, United States. Anytime so many are massacred...
Read moreA major crisis due to a simple failure
REPUBLIC Act 7166 providing for Synchronized National and Local Elections and for Electoral Reforms provides in Section 14 that every...
Read moreWe must be prepared for all these dangers
Preparedness saved many lives when Mount Pinatubo erupted 25 years ago, volcanologists said, as the nation remembered that day in...
Read moreBig news in solar energy development
WHAT could possibly be the biggest news to industry and to the movement for a cleaner world environment was the...
Read moreAnother beheaded as dismal saga continues
THE unfortunate story of the kidnapping of four people from a Samal island resort in 2015 – two Canadians, a...
Read moreSome changes to look forward to
Big changes are expected in government policy and operations. It was, after all, because of his promise of change that...
Read moreLegal & int’l complications over the death penalty
IN 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a “moratorium on the use of the death penalty” in member countries...
Read moreSenate PDAF report ends up in archives
HARDLY noticed in the welter of stories on more current events was the report last Friday that the Senate Blue...
Read moreA historic milestone for Hillary Clinton
HILLARY Clinton, former first lady and former secretary of state of the United States, reached a milestone in American history...
Read moreA truly comprehensive Metro traffic plan
This early, incoming Secretary Mark Villar of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has started coordinating with key...
Read moreA time to be silent
ARCHBISHOP Socrates Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, issued a statement the other day after President-elect...
Read moreLooking forward to the 17th Congress
A FINAL effort to override President Aquino’s veto of the P2,000 Social Security Pension bill failed on the last day...
Read moreA new group, a new problem
A NEW name has appeared in military reports of fighting in Mindanao – Maute Group. The Western Mindanao Command of...
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