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The new Supreme Court
By TONY LOPEZ Like all once immutable age-old institutions, the 125-year-old Supreme Court of the Philippines is undergoing an unprecedented modernization and transformation, thanks to the five-year Strategic Plan for Judicial Innovations (SPJI) of Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo. “The SPJI was developed from a simple but important recognition that an institution entrusted with constitutional…
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The three Rs of BBM
By TONY LOPEZ The arrest and trial of former President Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague for crimes against humanity. The impeachment and trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. The vigorous campaign against the P1.4-trillion flood control corruption and its perpetrators. The Iran War. The 48th ASEAN Summit, May 8, 2026, in Cebu and the leaders’…
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BBM promises P1.28 trillion windfall
By TONY LOPEZ One trillion pesos. That is my estimate of the money households and businesses who consume electricity will save as windfall if President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (PBBM) makes good on his promise to put a stop to the onerous system loss charges of power generation companies and electricity distributors and/or retailers. “It’s…
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Sara a multi-billionaire
By TONY LOPEZ Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte became awesomely rich while serving as vice mayor of Davao City from 2007 to 2010, and as its mayor from 2010 to 2013. During those years, transactions in her bank accounts amounted to P3 billion. Per the report of Anti-Money Laundering Council submitted to the House Committee…
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Sara guilty of grave threats, sedition
By TONY LOPEZ After the July 14 and 15 hearings of the Senate Impeachment Court, I now conclude: One, Sara Duterte should revamp her defense legal team. Two of its members have just incriminated her. She is guilty of grave threats and sedition. Two, the Impeachment Court will find it difficult and challenging not to…
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Milestones to make one optimistic
By TONY LOPEZ Three recent developments make me optimistic about the future, as a Filipino and as a citizen of this world. 1. The World Bank has declared the Philippines an upper-middle-income economy, with a per capita income of $4,850, above the $4,636 threshold. For 15 years since 2010, the Philippines had languished as a low-middle-income…
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Panic in Sara’s camp
By TONY LOPEZ With her trial to begin on July 6, 2026, a heat wave has struck the camp of Sara Zimmerman Duterte, the first Philippine vice president to be impeached twice, by huge numbers, by members of the House of Representatives. The Vice President is under intense pressure to come forward, face accountability and…
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AI AND THE FILIPINO
By TONY LOPEZ Bad news: The Philippines will be slow in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and its improvements—artificial general intelligence (AGI), and artificial general superintelligence (ASI). Good news: The Philippines will be slow in adopting AI and its improvements. AGI is the intelligence of a single human. ASI has superhuman abilities across virtually all tasks…
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