Putting science at the center of Iloilo City’s urban planning
WHEN the rains pour and the streets of Iloilo City flood, the city’s collective frustration is often directed at clogged canals, poorly designed drainage,...
What about the West Philippine Sea?
INDEED, what about it? The country is already drowning in problems: questionable insertions in the national budget that lead to ghost and substandard projects,...
‘Clean the house’: We need accountability, not just a new speaker
LAST Wednesday, Speaker Martin Romualdez resigned amid allegations of ghost projects and flood control scams. He gave up the gavel—but not power. He remains...
Trillion-Peso March
SEPTEMBER 21 is no ordinary date. It marks 53 years since Martial Law was declared, when silence was enforced and fear was law.
Now,...
The genocide in Gaza is driven by deception, 2
IT WOULD appear that United States President Donald Trump’s invitation to Hamas leaders to meet and discuss his latest ceasefire proposal in Doha, Qatar...
Christ gives his mother to be our mother too
IN THE GOSPEL reading of the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, (Jn 19, 25-34) we see how Christ entrusts...
Towards an official definition of the homeless rate
HOW CAN we compute the homeless rate if we don't even have an official definition of what it means to be homeless? This fundamental...
September 21: Memory meets outrage
SEPTEMBER 21 is a wound in our history — the day Martial Law was declared in 1972, ushering in years of fear, abuse, and...