The Commission on Audit may still conduct a fraud audit of the reported overpricing of billions of pesos worth of face masks and face shields if sought by citizens or requested by any agency. 4C066E0A-F172-4FC2-A79E-EBEC6BE79E53_4_5005_c Former Commission on Audit Chairperson Grace Pulido-Tan aired...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina As in previous years, yesterday’s opening of School Year 2021-2022 for 24.6 million basic education students was seen as a hopeful time for young minds to start acquiring knowledge to attain a bright future. “Punong-puno ng pag-asa ang...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina It was swift and stunning, yet not quite surprising. But the quick takeover of Taliban forces in Afghanistan still came as a shock to many who had believed the eventual fall of Kabul would take months, instead of mere hours after it was reported the...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The late Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III had many notable achievements during his term as the 15th president of the Philippines which made many Filipinos proud despite the criticisms he faced. It was when his administration was in power from 2010 to...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Because our forefathers fought off powerful invaders, we who are beneficiaries of their sacrifices and victories ought to do no less. We must exhaust all possible means, without resorting to war, to conserve and develop our patrimony. This is the gist...
Finding Answers Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina In every election campaign, we see many kinds of candidates – from the competent and God-fearing politicians who really have the country’s interests at heart, to the grossly incompetent who seem clueless on what it takes to be an excellent public...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Filipinos exasperated with “hoodlums in police uniforms” may now heave a sigh of relief with the appointment of Police General Guillermo Eleazar as chief of the Philippine National Police. As in any organization, the quality of leadership is...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina The deadly encounter recently between operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philippine National Police is another setback that strikes at the heart of the administration’s war on drugs. And the possibility that law enforcers...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Here’s good news that largely went unnoticed: President Duterte has okayed the expansion of the Bulacan Industrial City where a new pharmaceutical manufacturing zone is set to rise. Sen. Francis Tolentino, who was my online guest last Sunday in my...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina Victor Ziga, John Osmeña, and Dante Jimenez were truly great men in their own right. When I learned last week that they had passed away one after the other, I knew our country had lost outstanding Filipinos whose legacy of public service was...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina While it comes as no surprise, given the economic stranglehold inflicted by stringent lockdowns last year as the pandemic started to rage, the news that the Philippine economy suffered its worst so far is still quite shocking. On Thursday last week,...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey Lina I would like to share the insights of former Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor, chairman of the Federation of Free Farmers, about the predicament of the nation’s coconut farmers who remain poor despite the Coco Levy Fund worth billions of...
