• Agenda for prosperity

    Agenda for prosperity

    BBM to fulfill needs, aspirations of Filipinos By President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. (Message on the Proposed National Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, July 29, 2024) Honorable Speaker of the House of Representatives; Honorable President […]

  • Gold, genes and golds

    Gold, genes and golds

    By TONY LOPEZ Did you know that the Philippine government budgeted only P52 million to prepare, train, and send our athletes to the Paris Olympics? For that money, the Philippines so far has won two […]

  • “Last Supper” mocked

    “Last Supper” mocked

    By TONY LOPEZ On July 28, the Paris Olympics organizers apologized to Christian and Catholic groups over a parody of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that was part of the four-hour made-for-TV opening ceremony […]

  • Floods, money, banking and credit

    Floods, money, banking and credit

    By Tony Lopez In July 1972, Manila Bay and Lingayen Gulf had a date in Central Luzon.  It became what a British author described as northern Luzon’s “most serious floods recorded or remembered by man…775 […]

  • PH’s four major problems

    PH’s four major problems

    Philippine food prices are the highest in 100 years. In first quarter 2024, if you bought rice at the farm, you paid the farmer P24.82 per kilo, the highest in recent recorded history, and a […]

  • The assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    The assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    By TONY LOPEZ Donald J. Trump, bleeding profusely on his upper right ear, blood criss-crossing his reddened face, yet the former president looking defiant, his right fist pumped into the air as he hollers “Fight!  […]

  • BUNGLED BASIC EDUCATION

    BUNGLED BASIC EDUCATION

    By Tony Lopez That is the marching order given by President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. to his new Education secretary, Harvard Law-educated Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, 52. That means a stronger focus on the 3Rs of basic […]

  • Five things BBM did in two years

    Five things BBM did in two years

    By Tony Lopez On June 30, 2024, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. completed the first two years of his six-year presidency. In two years, Marcos Jr. did five things: One, he unified the country.  Two, […]