COVER STORY

ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN 2023

When the government reported an 11.8% gain in the country’s output of goods and services or GDP in the second quarter, it declared the end of the recession. The news of the end of the […]

COVER STORY

Duterte’s Davao Mafia: The dark side of cronyism

It is now abundantly clear: Rodrigo Roa Duterte has been running a Davao Mafia all these years. It is  cronyism multiplied a thousand times. The cabal gobbled up choice government contracts of all kinds, the […]

COVER STORY

PH PANDEMIC WORSENS

The Philippine pandemic situation has turned for the worse—in fact, the worst since COVID-19 entered the archipelago in February 2020.  The country as of Aug. 25, 2021, had 1.883 million cases, with 1.725 million recovered […]

COVER STORY

VACCINES

Among  the 17 regions in the Philippines, Metro Manila will be the first to achieve herd immunity. This year.   So confident is BenHur Abalos, the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman, has vowed that […]