As the Christmas season approached, government agencies publicly pledged that essential food prices would be kept in check to ease household budgets.

DTI’s Holiday Pricing Folly

Court convicts Cumpio and Domequil

"Alarming and dangerous." That was how human rights advocates described a decision by the regional trial court in Tacloban City delivering a sweeping verdict finding community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and humanitarian worker Marielle Domequil guilty of "financing terrorism."

Guilty!

As 2025 closes, Eastern Visayas is once again forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: public money has vanished into projects that exist only on paper, and no one has been held to account.

Another Year Ends Without Accountability

The year 2025 – at least, the second half of the year – has been an explosive one for Philippine history.

EXPLOSIVE 2026

A flood control project meant to shield Barangay Balud from the swelling Binahaan River in Tanauan, Leyte has instead become a stark symbol of infrastructure failure, after roughly 300 meters of the structure collapsed during heavy rains triggered by a shearline, only weeks after its reported completion.

Newly Finished, Quickly Broken

 A classic scam that, unfortunately, most Filipinos still fall for.

DIVERSIONS?

More Pinoys feel less hopeful in 2026

We’re not yet a few days into the New Year – and it’s already feeling like Halloween.

FEAR

The May 2028 presidential elections may still be two years away.

Rambulan na?

“Level-up.” That was Laguna Governor Sol Aragones’ promise for this year’s celebration of Laguna’s Anilag Festival, even as some popular features of the previous festivities seemed to be buried.

ANILAG: Level Up or Scale Down?

“Heartless” is how many residents of Ormoc City, Leyte described the abrupt closure of a major hospital in this city.

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