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SC stops robbery
By TONY LOPEZ On Dec. 5, 2025, the Supreme Court announced that by a unanimous decision, it has ordered the Department of Finance (DOF) to return asap the P60 billion Ralph Recto dragooned from the benefits fund of PhilHealth, the state health insurance company. The high court, by a majority vote, also ruled as a…
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Catharsis
By TONY LOPEZ I am not an economist. I have had exposure in economics. I am a bachelor of literature, major in journalism, magna cum laude, but my electives in college were economics, banking, and marketing. I also took up three semesters of MBA, at Ateneo, and MBA is basically applying economic fundamentals to your business so you make…
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Strength behind the calm demeanor
The 17th President and Chief Executive has done what the 16 presidents before him could not—expose the largest act of corruption ever, the flood-gate (flood control scam+Watergate) where over P1 trillion was looted by corrupt senators, corrupt congressmen, corrupt contractors, and corrupt officials of other government agencies. President BBM (Bongbong Marcos) is determined to sue…
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No hope for PAGASA?
By Tony Lopez In one week, two powerful typhoons devastated half of the Philippine archipelago of 7,600 islands. The first, Tropical Cyclone Tino or Kalmaegi to non-Filipinos, entered Philippine territory on Nov. 2, and dropped a month’s rainfall in just 24 hours on the Visayas, central Philippines, and parts of Mindanao. With maximum sustained winds…
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Leading Maynilad’s Next Generation
The Transformational Leadership of CEO Ramoncito S. Fernandez BizNewsAsia Management Excellence Awardee for 2025 Enhance Maynilad operations and efficiency in the West Zone Maynilad Water is focused on enhancing service delivery and operational efficiency, supported by a comprehensive CAPEX program totaling P163.3 billion (U.S.$2,885.3 million), as provided in our business plan for 2023 to 2027…
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ICI’s fighting faith
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL By TONY LOPEZ I asked retired Supreme Court Justice Andres Reyes Jr., “why did you accept such a thankless job as chair of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure?” His answer, biting his lips, “I pity our poor countrymen.” One trillion pesos was stolen from the budget of the Department of Public…
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Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla
People’s TribuneProsecutorEqualizerSaviorPatriot By TONY LOPEZ Two anecdotes about Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla, 64, the new Ombudsman: Remulla made Erap to goon leave, not resign In the morning of Jan. 20, 2001, then Executive Secretary Edgardo Angara managed to convince Joseph Ejercito Estrada to sign a letter of resignation as president. Boying Remulla, then 40 and…
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The nation’s 15 TOWNS outstanding women for 2025
BRILLIANCE MEETS COMPASSION AND PURPOSE Can they help unravel the biggest political crisis in the Philippines in the last 127 years — the syndicated stealing of over P1 trillion of flood control money in the last 10 years? This question faces the 15 outstanding young women of 2025, announced Sept. 17, by the TOWNS Foundation. …
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