LANDSCAPE Seventy-eight years ago, in February 1945, at Yalta, Crimea, leaders of the Grand Alliance – Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt – were re-configuring the world. They had defeated Adolf Hitler, were in the process of shredding Germany while installing an...
The House of Representatives' resident doctor was able to "certify" the medical condition of Lilia Cruz, the so-called "Sibuyas Queen" and focal person in the solons' ongoing agricultural hoarding-slash-price manipulation probe. This was confirmed by Committee on Agriculture and Food Chairman and...
The House Committee on Agriculture and Food instructed on Tuesday morning, March 21 the House of Representatives physician to go to the hospital where "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz had been confined to. This, after Cruz, who goes by the alias "Leah Cruz", skipped the panel's hearing on the...
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has inaugurated the Regional TVET Innovation Center (RTIC) at the Isabela School of Arts and Trades (ISAT) in Ilagan City, Isabela which will help in providing skills training to the country’s workforce. In a statement, TESDA said...
HOTSPOT Did you know that there were 18,087 positions at stake in the 2022 elections? Give or take a few positions whose terms of office exceed three years, this would be roughly the same number of positions to be contested in 2025. I again looked for this number after I saw a widely-shared social...
LANDSCAPE Jose David Lapuz, Knight Grand Cross of Rizal, was the last of that inexorable breed of orators. He had the voice for it; he was a baritone and had he chosen the opera instead of the academe he could have excelled in villainous roles like the Conti di Luna in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.”...
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has joined the celebration of National Women’s Month, stating that they are a priority when it comes to the provision of training for them to be empowered and to further widen their employment opportunities in the country. TESDA took...
Economist-solon Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo appears to have cracked the hoarding-price manipulation code that the likes of "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz (alias Leah Cruz) are allegedly employing. Quimbo managed to do so after only four public hearings of the House Committee on...
HOTSPOT It is unconventional wisdom but governments, past and present, actually owe generations of jeepney drivers and operators a lot. The fact is, these family-run micro-enterprises have been the backbone of public transportation nationwide. Without them, there’s no mobility across the...
So-called "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz, alias Leah Cruz has once again no-showed a hearing of the House Committee on Agriculture and Food, forcing congressmen to send her stronger summons for her presence. Quezon 1st district Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga (Screenshot from, Zoom) Committee Chairman...
Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. said he'd favor a recommendation to the President to reshuffle the personnel within the Department of Agriculture (DA). President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left) and Cavite 4th district Elpidio Barzaga Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN) But Barzaga, one of the...
Expect the House of Representatives to continue its investigation on the agricultural hoarding issue for several weeks more. Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr. hints that the ongoing House inquiry on agricultural hoarding won't be concluded anytime soon . (Facebook) This is all thanks to...
