Of all the legislative districts in the country, the first district of Leyte is considered a “no contest” district because all the seven towns and one city here are expected to vote for House Speaker Martin Romualdez as their representative in Congress.

Democracy dies when there’s no choice 

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act last Sept. 26, and the Palace is confident that the new law will make food more affordable and accessible to many Filipinos and provide better income for local farmers and fisherfolk.

A surfeit of laws vs smuggling 

IT is good to note that there are still government agencies that value the growth of local economies, and would rather do their purchasing locally rather than import their requirements.  That is, if the commodity needed can be adequately supplied by local firms or LGUs.


PCA supports salt industry 

The jeepney drivers and operators who are identified with the Left are agitated again, as they pursue the path of protest, tigil-pasada, rallies and strikes.  They also petitioned the Supreme Court on their main demand:  the scrapping of the government's jeepney modernization program.

Oxymoron:  Jeepney and modernization 

In a recent media forum of the Manila City Hall Reporters’ Association, Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna reported that former mayor Isko Moreno’s administration left some P17.8 billion debts or outstanding bank loans for succeeding administrations to pay.

Blame game starts in Manila 

Kristine, a severe and horrific typhoon, visited the Philippines on Oct. 21 as a tropical depression, intensifying the next day to a tropical storm level before making landfall in Isabela.

PH true friends in Asean 

The decline of the Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEI) from November 6 to November 14—from 7,245.92 to 6,559.27—occurred in seven consecutive days.  This, to me, is alarming, as such decline is seldom felt in a supposedly robust economy as the Philippines’.  Another such plunge that happened last April 2 to April 16  was not so concerning as this was followed by a slight recovery.

Scaling up foreign investments

Eat your hearts out, ardent followers of VP Sara Duterte aside from BBM loyalists who still believe that pink and yellow are evil colors.

No more color distinction in PH

Last year, five Chinese nationals were also arrested for illegal extraction of minerals in Misamis Oriental last year.  Do you know what minerals they were digging?  Uranium. 

Digging up our minerals 

When former mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog of Iloilo City was given the opportunity to say his piece against former President Digong Duterte at the House Quad Comm hearings, he eclipsed new media celebrity Alice Guo.

Mabilog show at the House 

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG Column Diego Cagahastian and Raffy Sarnate

VIEW FROM CALUMPANG

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