November 29, 2025

Editorial

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 ...

Same old, same old

Everytime we go through calamitous events like the typhoons that just passed, we end up always wishing the government had done better in its responses. For most of the time, ...

Where to Cordillera?

Even if we had Autonomy today, it will still take a long time before we start reaping the benefits of our so-called self-determination. There will be a lot birth pains ...

The hard way is the enduring way

So many lives have been ruined because of gambling. Now, with technology, such as E-Sabong we have made things easier, thus, accelerating our travel on the road to perdition. Talks ...

Humanitarian programs during difficult times

It is during the rainy season when the less fortunate really feel how it is to be so. The only people who are making money during such times are those ...

Higher prices are never rolled back

Since time immemorial, every time there is a reason to raise the prices of commodities such as the hefty increases in the prices of petroleum products, sellers of almost everything ...