Jarius Bondoc
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Sacking of officials sought as energy crisis looms
President Bongbong Marcos Jr. is being asked to recall his appointment of three high energy officials. → Read More
Devising ways around NAIA runway congestion
Airlines at Manila International Airport are under the gun. Unsolved runway congestion messes up their flights. But they can’t decry MIA ineptitude outright, lest they be placed on the shit list. Most just grin and bear it. → Read More
Papuans want Filipino miner out of their ancestral land
A Filipino miner is causing social unrest in the Pacific island of Bougainville, the same way he stirred up Mindanao tribesmen against his mining. → Read More
Why still no charges for Boracay mess?
Three nagging questions need answering on the eve of Boracay’s six-month closure for rehabilitation: → Read More
What to do with junk jeepneys?
There’s no choice but to phase out jeepneys. They do not meet today’s standards for land transport. Jeepneys are dirty, rickety, risky. Engines are reconditioned diesel-combustions. → Read More
Rattled by Rappler; Prostituted by ambition
One wonders what occupies the mind of those in the mightiest office in the land that they devote great effort on one reporter. → Read More
Bank ATMs at MRT-3 waiting to be robbed
Millions of pesos in cash were left in the machines when the GM suddenly forbade bank personnel entry to the stations. → Read More
If this is change, we won’t like it
Justifying murder on mere suspicion of corruption would worsen the state we’re in. → Read More
Only 1 job vacancy per 10 college grads
Reality has sunk in for this year’s 700,000 new college grads. They are unwelcome in this land. Since leaving school in April they have found no work. There are only 70,000 job openings, a tenth of their number. Not one requires a college degree. → Read More
Treason raps filed vs Sen. Trillanes
Manila was incapable of defending Scarborough, the ex-Navy officer allegedly told the Chinese. → Read More
Smartmatic all set, Comelec unready
As in 2010 and 2013 the poll body and its voting machine seller break the law in rushing sloppy automation. → Read More
Car plate shortage spawns new racket
There’s a crime wave out there, while inside the LTO car registrants must pay “facilitation.” → Read More
Comelec dumbly accepts Smartmatic sly donation
Election cheats would have to switch the voter receipts with fabricated ones – hence the need for controlled paper supply. → Read More
3 gov’t branches thwarting reforms
Twice breaking the Constitution, P-Noy appointed the justice who granted bail to two “plundering” legislators. → Read More
Abaya to grant railway deal despite poll ban
Where’s he going to test-run the new MRT-3 trains, if he’s tearing up the tracks? → Read More
Comelec database hacking: Balloting, all voters imperiled
We can let false assurances lull us into complacency – until cybercriminals defraud each of us and our elections. → Read More
Hacking exposes 55-M voters to identity theft
Comelec officials should pay civil damages and be jailed for negligence that opened all voters to cyber fraud. → Read More
AMLC caught napping, and now overacting
It’s shortcutting the legal process to return the stolen $81 million, to make up for its slowpoke response at first. → Read More
Aquino airport worst under two Aquinos
Cousins Noynoy and Honrado are to blame for the NAIA mess; the latter for incompetence, the former for retaining him. → Read More
Documents belie Roxas, Abaya claims vs Vitangcol
The more lies they say about him, the more truths he reveals about them. → Read More