NEWSFLASH: At least 25 dead, vast areas smashed by typhoon Odette; millions without electricity
By ALFRED GABOT, Editor in Chief CEBU CITY/QUEZON CITY – At least 25 persons were reported killed and several were...
Month: December 2021
POSTPONE 2022 POLLS TO 2025? PETITION FILED: COVID-19 threat cited as reason; Unconstitutional, say poll experts
By ALFRED GABOT Editor in Chief MANILA – As presidential and vice presidential aspirants and local candidates stepped up their...
PNP tags 448 towns, 58 cities as initial election hotspots
CAMP CRAME, Quezon City - The Philippine National Police (PNP) has identified 488 towns and 58 cities as potential hotspots...
Los Angeles County Insurance Commissioner Felix Lopez named to DeMolay Legion of Honor
CERRITOS, California -- Los Angeles County Insurance Commissioner Felix B. Lopez was conferred last Nov. 6 by DeMolay International the Legion...
ON DISTANT SHORE: What’s wrong with PhilHealth?
“So young, yet so corrupt.” Thus said Mayor Arsenio Lacson of the then 23-year-old Councilor Ernesto Maceda as he was...
OFFLINE: Major banking scandal being kept under wraps?
The details are hard to get, but something terrible happened last week – possibly earlier -- to one of the...
Quezon City is top local gov’t, back as PHL’s most competitive city
By Claire Morales True QUEZON CITY - The Quezon City government has emerged as the country's best local government unit...
Bangko Sentral, Governor Diokno under fire for new P1,000 bill design, UP says it’s slap to war heroes
By Jeanne Michael Penaranda MANILA - Governor Benjamin Diokno of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is under fire from historians,...
Kamalayan, Kabayan, AKO OFW get top slots, retired cops’ PRAI in first 20 in Comelec party-list order on ballot
MANILA – Kalipunan ng Maralita at Malayang Mamamayan, Inc. (Kamalayan) secured the top spot on the ballot for 166 party-list groups...
NEWSFLASH! Comelec junks petition to declare Marcos a nuisance presidential bet, 6 other petitions still pending
By Claire Morales True MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed one of the seven petitions filed seeking...
