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Reject 2025 pork-ridden budget

THE 2025 national budget, approved by Congress’ bicameral conference committee at an outrageous P6.352 trillion, is a blatant abuse of our hard-earned taxes. Instead...

Wanted: ‘Living wage’

BAYAN Muna Panay acknowledges the recent wage increase in Western Visayas as a necessary yet modest step in addressing the financial strain felt by...

‘Guilty beyond reasonable doubt’ – A blessing and a curse

THE STORY goes that Julius Caesar divorced his wife whom he suspected of infidelity. Although she was tried and eventually acquitted, Caesar stood by...

Food warning labels can protect our children from harmful food

THERE is no greater tragedy than seeing children and youth, who at their age should be playing and discovering, beset by serious diseases such...

Labor leader Aurelio ‘Boy’ Bosque

THE FAMILY of Aurelio “Boy” Bosque confirmed that he was among the five individuals killed in Barangay Aglonok, Calinog, Iloilo on August 8, following...

On public toilet in San Jose, Antique

WARM greetings from the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority or TIEZA! We appreciate the feedback raised regarding the construction of the public toilet in...

Terrorist designation of human rights defenders

HOW the controversial anti-terrorism law is used to evoke terror among citizens is alarming as well as it is condemnable. Six persons in the...

Defense

AT THE age of 43, he was the youngest Defense chief in the Philippines. Gilbert Teodoro Jr., who is currently 58 years old, has been...

End the insurgency

THE New People’s Army (NPA) – Front Twelve, under the Panay Regional Operational Command, released a statement on the Communist Party of the Philippines’...

‘Hindi bayani’

FIVE years ago, on Nov. 18, 2016, Rodrigo Duterte fulfilled a promise he gave to the Marcoses in exchange for their support when he...