There’s a Phil Connors in each one of us. That disenchanted, weary, and self-absorbed version of ourselves who, at some point, has felt hemmed in by the daily grind. In the movie "Groundhog ...

I’ve learned and grown to like grief. I live with it; I don’t run from it anymore—terrified of the thought that it might come ...

My mother, a person with disability, retired in 2024 at the age of 65, after years of being the municipal budget officer in Ilocos Sur. She’s a registered PWD, and according to Republic Act No.

Technical vocational education and training, under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), rests on a robust quality-assurance system—the Compliance Audit, System for TVET ...

Just when you think that last year’s ban on Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) would keep us safe from this scourge comes the news report that more than 200 Filipinos were rescued Monday ...

This holy All Saints’-All Souls’ weekend (with its ghoulish Halloween counterpart), may we contemplate the fleeting nature of life, the exhilarating wonders it offers, and the crushing pain it ...

Positioned on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is demonstrably one of the world’s most vulnerable nations to natural disaster risk. This reality was recently evidenced by a sequence of ...

Apparently, a few who have reason to be.For five years, the nation’s simplest anticorruption tool—the statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) of public servants—was locked away ...

TO whom can we entrust our nation’s future if the political leaders in Congress—those in whom the people repose their trust by electing them to their exalted positions—are themselves involved in ...

They were called “Bright Boys” when they both became congressmen for the first time in 1998. They were elected together as ...

Old habits die hard, and pernicious habits die harder. Just witness the frantic Palace pushback against the wave of public sentiment demanding the release of statement of assets, liabilities, and net ...

The abrupt suspension of the Senate investigation into the substandard and ghost flood control projects has left everyone in suspense, whetting the public’s appetite for more revelations about this ...