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Deposit insurance, too
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 15, 2025 - 12:00am
The financial predators in government failed to get their claws on our pension funds to finance the Maharlika sovereign wealth fund or whatever creature this non-performing project turns out to be.
The silent majority?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 13, 2025 - 12:00am
Here’s something for despairing folks to chew on: there are many people in our bureaucracy who want good government, who are against the crooks’ kalakaran of “facilitation fees” and kick...
Depoliticizing aid
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 10, 2025 - 12:00am
If President Marcos wants to be spared from the public opprobrium arising from his token veto of the election budget passed by his congressional allies, there are certain things that he can do to dispel suspicions...
Costly campaigns
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 8, 2025 - 12:00am
Why do politicians devise all sorts of devious ways to get their dirty paws on public funds for their own use?
Culture of mendicancy
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 6, 2025 - 12:00am
After the economic catastrophe that resulted from the Marcos dictatorship, Corazon Aquino turned to the international community for help in reviving the devastated Philippine economy.
Doable solutions
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 3, 2025 - 12:00am
After smelling like roses for much of 2024, all the impressive investigation conducted by the House and Senate committees went up in smoke in the final weeks of December.
Breakup year
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am
The year 2024 will be remembered in our country for three things in politics in government. The first is the breakup of the UniTeam – unexpected only because it happened so soon.
Tribute to Rizal
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 30, 2024 - 12:00am
In my travels overseas, among the most pleasant surprises I have encountered, particularly in Europe, are the memorials or markers paying tribute to a Filipino, Jose Rizal.
Creative budgeting
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 27, 2024 - 12:00am
People who feel overworked and underpaid, including teachers and health workers, should look at the fund allotments and expenditures of lawmakers for 2023 – and weep.
Christmases past
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Last Saturday night, I heard Christmas carols ringing out outside my home: “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.” “Sa Maybahay Ang Aming Bati.”
Joy of reading
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 23, 2024 - 12:00am
For the holidays, I took a break from K-dramas to watch the screen adaptation of one of my favorite novels, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Stop, thief!
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am
For an agency that is being allocated the lion’s share of the 2025 national budget, at a staggering P1.1 trillion, it’s amazing that the Department of Public Works and Highways cannot build and maintain...
Mary Jane comes home
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
For sure, there will be many epal or credit-grabbing moments with the return to the country today of Mary Jane Veloso.
Nailed to trees
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 16, 2024 - 12:00am
If Chairman George Garcia of the Commission on Elections could have his way, he would hammer a nail into candidates who nail their campaign materials to trees.
Campaign pollution
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 13, 2024 - 12:00am
Politicians polluting public spaces with their campaign materials are not only bad for aesthetics and the environment, they are also bad for your health.
Food innovations
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
In this season of feasting, it’s noteworthy that the government has announced that it would be rolling out a noodle that is OK for diabetics.
No regrets
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
The striking thing about the principal players in the war on drugs is their lack of remorse.
Struck twice over
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The Land Transportation Office under the Department of Transportation should review the performance of its accredited car insurance providers plus their auto repair shop tie-ups. The DOTr-LTO should ensure that the...
Lost school days
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am
Every year on average, 53 school days are lost due to weather disturbances, according to Education Secretary Sonny Angara. In the typhoon-hit Cordilleras alone, he said 35 days have already been lost so far this...
Zarzuela?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 2, 2024 - 12:00am
One scenario in the ongoing political storm is that a game of good cop, bad cop is afoot, with the bad one being… never mind.
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