YOLANDA RUN: Buhay at Bahay, Itindig Muli! A partnership of government and non-government organizations, this fund-raising event is a first step to rolling out a project to help rebuild lives and reconstruct homes and communities in the provinces...

IN THE MAY 2013 elections, 33 candidates aspired to be called senators of the Republic, members of an elite leadership that would help craft the laws of the land. But what do you do with candidates, both winning or losing, who apparently do not even...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS are the primary drivers in the event a calamity strikes a community. But for an LGU to move quickly and efficiently, it needs a ready source of funds. Recently passed laws are supposed to have made it easier for LGUs to tap...

IN TEN DAYS, the world again commemorates the Maguindanao Massacre, the single worst case of media murders in the world and the worst case of election violence in the Philippines. On November 23, 2009, armed men believed to be supporters of the...

THEY KNOW WHEREOF THEY SPEAK. Former senior government officials (FSGOs), concerned citizens who used to serve in the Cabinets of various administrations, have put their weight behind moves for the abolition of the Priority Development Assistance Fund...

DISASTERS BRING OUT the best in people; sometimes they also bring out the worst. In past disasters, some politicians have been found to be repackaging relief goods by plastering their own labels on them to make it appear as if the goods came from their...

THE NUMBERS of the dead and the missing keep rising, yet the scale and severity of the catastrophe that super typhoon Yolanda exacted in 41 or over half of the Philippines’ 80 provinces have yet to unravel. Official sources on ground are counting...