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The smoke drifting across Metro Manila from the recent Navotas landfill fire is a clear warning sign. The number of incidents linked to sanitary landfills, from persistent fires to catastrophic collapses, underscores a system under considerable strain. These events are not isolated incidents but...

OF TREES AND FOREST I have seen the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) Social Weather Survey of March 24-31, 2026 which found that 50 percent of adult Filipinos felt that their lives got worse, 26 percent said it was the same, and 23 percent saying it got better, compared to twelve months ago....

REFLECTIONS TODAY In John’s Gospel, Jesus states emphatically: “Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son” (5:22). Now, in today’s Gospel reading, Jesus makes a second important clarification. He clarifies that, in fact, he does not judge either. He says,...

BEYOND BUDGET Assalamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. I have always believed that real change in government does not always begin with big announcements. More often, it starts in rooms where people sit down, compare notes, and try to make things work better than they did before. That is why...