January 14, 2026

Editorial

Arrogance

The biggest hindrance to being successful in attaining the objectives of one’s New Year’s resolution is ego, or worse, arrogance. These not only block an objective assessment of what needs ...

Sipsip

Respect for the hierarchy is something emphasized in this nation. It is molded during childhood at home and continues in the classroom where physical punishments are given to those who ...

More and more

Some banks and assets are frozen, and some arrest warrants are being slapped upon some peoples’ heads in relation to the many flood control scandals. But, like the politicians when ...

Anger must remain

The holiday season is nigh upon us. We can now expect the handouts from many officials. Gift baskets, Christmas packages and all sorts. But we ought to keep in mind ...

All eyes now are on the City Council

Who will vote to award the City Market redevelopment to SM? Trying to divine how the councilors will vote turned out to be interesting. It stimulated the mind to come ...

United students

When thousands gather to sign a petition, that must be considered with great attention. When thousands of your own students gather to demand better then that must mean you have ...

The deadliest killers

The Visayas region has been recently battered by a storm again. In the pictures, they captured the tragedies set upon the common people. Cars piled up on top of one ...

Disappointment from the afterlife

We hold a special reverence for our dearly departed. Along with our families, we honor our dead and dedicate time for them. While each family has their own special ones, ...

Classrooms where?

It is reported that out of the 1,700 targeted number of classrooms built, only 22 have been completed and around 800 are not even started. To involve children in a ...

Spanking

One of the core values that schools teach to children is honesty. Most especially if you attended one of the many Christian/catholic schools, then you would know this word is ...

Again, who suffers?

Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao have been hit by earthquakes recently. Across the major islands, it was the masses who suffered, their small sari-sari stores wrecked, their vulnerable homes threatened to ...

Tough luck

A man must make his way through life. He must earn a living and just how life should be, one must work hard in order to reach the top. But ...

A day to remember and learn from

September 21 has been the date set for rallies in many cities across the country, participated in by groups from all walks of life united by frustration over corruption. Different ...

Beware of the Gen-Z

Reports have recently come out over the violent and “Gen-Z” led protests in Nepal over corruption and inequality. The protests came after the government’s ban on social media and fully ...

What is up the President’s sleeve?

With the way the President is being so slow, he and his family might be courting being exiled again just like how things went in 1986. Definitely he would not ...

Ghost projects are scaring our talented younger generation to go abroad

Once again it seems the ghosts of this country is something we cannot outrun. Along with the many “ghost” promises that have come and gone in recent decades, now “ghost” ...

The Senate circus

The senate's investigation on corrupt, anomalous or downright ghost flood control projects is now becoming just like a circus. Only for show. If this administration is really serious about sending ...

Without jailing corrupt people, the president will look funny

Our country is so rotten now due to corruption almost to the point of hopelessness. With what the President said in the SONA, he will look funny, actually an imbecile, ...

Sexual child abuse cases rampant in the Cordillera

Gruesome crimes, particularly the incestuous kind. We thought it was only rampant in other regions., but no, it is as rampant in these mountains. And it had been going for ...

Time to prove the President’s mettle

The parts of the SONA against politicians was good to hear but we had been hearing similar things since time immemorial. Nothing, however, ever happened in a sustained way. So ...