“WE must overcome the entropy of the old tradition of secrecy," counseled Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno in his lengthy argument on the petition to have the government disclose details of the negotiations between the Philippines and Japan...

WITH the rates of inflation, foreign exchange and interest going haywire, preparing the government's budget proposal for 2009 must be giving some people in Malacañang terrible migraine attacks these days. Do Filipinos really feel progress as trumpeted...

THE beauty of using percentages is that it hides what is absolutely ugly. Take the 2006-2007 net enrolment ratio (NER) data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). The agency reports that the NER dropped to 83.2 percent last...

OUR latest report is a “Public Eye” profile on the man of the hour: Romulo L. Neri, who was designated by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last Friday as new administrator of the Social Security System. This new posting for Neri -- erstwhile director...

WHEN leaders of various international and local groups gathered to observe World Population Day in Mandaluyong City on Friday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was noticeably absent. Instead, it was former President Fidel V. Ramos who took center...

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “Ramdam ang Kaunlaran” slogan to trumpet the apparent economic gains from last year's 7.3 GDP growth rate is turning out to be nothing but empty rhetoric amid a food supply crisis and the almost weekly oil price...

TWO weeks after typhoon Frank's fury turned much of Western Visayas into a diluvian waterworld, the rehabilitation of the region has all the more become imperative. Estimates by the National Disaster Coordinating Council of the cost of devastation...