As news about the anomalous, if not altogether uncompassionate national budget began to spread, so did the protests begin.

Historians deal with the past, this makes writing a New Year column difficult. We all want to throw 2024 in the dustbin of ...

Filipinos have consistently met the coming of a new year with hope and excitement, as it represents a fresh start, looking ...

As we ring the year out, we have nothing but good wishes for the President to succeed in the remaining four years of his term. Our fervent wish is for him to go beyond the political considerations of ...

One of my dreams is to shop without checking the price. Even now that I live overseas, I still check prices. I wish I could stop checking the prices when I go grocery shopping at M&S. My ...

Once again, many parts of the Philippines are turning into a war zone as Filipinos outdo each other in greeting the New Year ...

Somewhere in one of his masterpieces, Gabriel Marquez writes about how “life obliges [people] over and over again to give birth to themselves.” In many ways, politics is the same, since key ...

Cloudy crystal balls” was the title of an article I wrote in early 2020, which proved to be an apt description of how ...

Revenue targets of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the government’s main tax generators ...

Here at home on a short holiday break, I feel unease at the prospects for next year, as we face another political “carnival” ...