Remember Gerry Ortega? He was the broadcaster, environmentalist, and corruption whistleblower, not to mention veterinarian (the source of his bread and butter so he could engage in his advocacies), who was killed in broad daylight in Puerto Princesa, shot at the back of his head while he was buying clothes from an ukay-ukay store (which...

Among the brickbats thrown in PNoy’s direction is “Doing nothing” or, as rabid Arroyo partisans prefer, “Nobody home.” There is also a sense even among allies of wasted opportunity due to lack of verb and bluster. While PNoy’s SONA II had imperfections other commentators had rightly pointed out, it also had portentous substrates...

What is it about sugar—sugar lands, that is? They are indubitably—based on figures released by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)—the most difficult lands to “reform,” i.e., to be acquired by the government from their respective landowners. Only consider: per the data on the Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD) balances by crops planted (as...

First, IT was Ping de Jesus. Now, it is Bertie Lim. That’s two resignations from the Aquino Cabinet in the less than 14 months since P-Noy’s watch started. I haven’t checked, but this has got to be a record. I don’t recall any similar resignations so soon after an administration came to power....

Rizal is famous for his polymathic genius and political prescience, but little is written about his economic views. It is wrong to think, however, that Rizal had no economic philosophy at all. (Shameless plug: the Philippine Economic Society is devoting the December issue of its journal to the content and context of Rizal’s economics.)