HOTSPOT Filipinos have a special level of disdain for traditional politicians who, after winning the elections, pamper their bailiwicks while punishing barangays or neighborhoods that did not vote for them. The same goes for the sore losers who blame voters for not seeing the “wisdom” of...
HOTSPOT The House and Senate hearings into Vice President Sara Duterte’s confidential funds, the Duterte administration’s bloody drug war, and POGOs, including those involving characters like Alice Guo, are an absolutely welcome development. Cynics say the hearings can only be political...
BAGUIO CITY – Most Rev. Rafael Tambaoan Cruz, D.D., was officially installed as the new bishop of the Diocese of Baguio during a solemn canonical ceremony held in front of the Baguio Cathedral or the Our Lady of Atonement Church on Tuesday, September 17. MAYOR Benjamin Magalong (right), Vice...
HOTSPOT If there are what we could consider among the most essential government programs, two would be quite familiar to many Filipinos, and I suppose nobody would question the decision of the House appropriations committee to raise the budget for them by a whopping ₱1.29 billion. Committee...
HOTSPOT They may not be talking or they may not totally like one another at all, but what’s important right now is that they are doing what needs to be done in Congress. I’m referring of course to the oppositionist forces of Makabayan congresspersons led by France Castro and Akbayan Senator...
HOTSPOT Most people have surely forgotten the President’s state of the nation address of July 22, 2013. But for alumni of the UP National Institute of Geological Sciences, countless activists, and perhaps members of the media, they surely remember the sight of an activist hugging a crying cop....
HOTSPOT Satur Ocampo and France Castro are in a unique position among political figures of the Philippine Left, as they fight a conviction for child abuse. Together with friends, we campaigned with and for Ka Satur over two decades ago when he led Bayan Muna to the top of the 2001 partylist race,...
HOTSPOT Debates and discussions about the family saga of multiple Olympic gold medalist Carlos Yulo continue to rage online. Every day, a new angle comes out, making many feel that there’s no end to it in sight. At the same time, a journalism professor and a veteran journalist have separately...
HOTSPOT The change actually started at Tokyo 2021 with weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz winning the country’s first-ever Olympic gold medal. At Paris 2024, gymnast Carlos Yulo’s two Olympic golds proclaimed Diaz’s achievement wasn’t a fluke. It is a change that shocks the colonial-minded,...
HOTSPOT Lots of news this week from Paris to Palestine, about prisoner swaps and presidential campaigns elsewhere, and regarding POGOs and pugantes. All are competing for space in newscasts and newspapers, and of course for our attention. The most glorious piece of news for me though is something...
Taguig 2nd district Rep. Pammy Zamora (left), Taguig-Pateros Rep. Ricardo "Ading" Cruz Jr. (Facebook) "Umayos tayo (Put yourself in line), Cong. Zamora." Taguig-Pateros Rep. Ricardo "Ading" Cruz Jr. had this to say--and more--to Taguig 2nd district...
HOTSPOT When Congress passed and the President enacted in 2019 a “National Campus Press Freedom Day Act” or Republic Act 11440, the day chosen was July 25. July 25 was the day in 1931, when editors from The National of National University, Philippine Collegian of the University of the...
