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Ana Marie Pamintuan
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Incorrigibly evil
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 22, 2026 - 12:00am
The coordinates for a P23-million farm-to-market road in Nueva Ecija for funding in the 2027 budget pointed to a spot in the ocean near the Philippine Rise, according to a budget watchdog.
Wanted: Disruptors
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 21, 2026 - 12:00am
The economics professor has a doctorate, a master’s degree and known advocacies for fiscal prudence and judicious budgeting.
Pila balde
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 19, 2026 - 12:00am
To be fair to President Marcos, he’s not the first person to suggest collecting rainfall in buckets or balde.
The prosecution rests its case
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 16, 2026 - 12:00am
There’s one undeniable consequence of the prosecution’s dropping of three articles of impeachment and resting its case against Sara Duterte: it significantly shortens the proceedings.
Attracting tourists
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 14, 2026 - 12:00am
The full-grown Komodo dragon lay sprawled in the shade of a tree, unmindful of the tourists taking photos with it from a safe distance.
Isolation or empowerment?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 12, 2026 - 12:00am
A five-year-old girl I know got her first real cellphone when she was just three years old.
Presumption of irregularity
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 9, 2026 - 12:00am
According to former public works undersecretary Roberto Bernardo, he received a total of P120 million from Zaldy Co from 2023 to 2025.
Privileged deposits
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 7, 2026 - 12:00am
The executive director of the Anti-Money Laundering Council, Ronel Buenaventura, was asked by Sen. Robinhood Padilla yesterday if he thought amendments were needed in the country’s laws against dirty mone...
River restoration
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 5, 2026 - 12:00am
With the monsoon rains and flooding taking a break the other weekend, I went to my old haunts in Manila.
Plan B
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 2, 2026 - 12:00am
No one dares predict how the Supreme Court, with its changing membership, might vote on any issue.
Cash houses
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 30, 2026 - 12:00am
Perhaps because Father Flavie Villanueva found him deserving of being heard, dismissed policeman Rodulfo Gracioso may face less skepticism about his story of grand thievery allegedly involving Vice President Sara...
NOTA
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 28, 2026 - 12:00am
Oh yes, Juan and Juana, you can do something to stop corruption.
Wanted: Counselors
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 25, 2026 - 12:00am
While riveted by the events unfolding at the Senate, let’s not forget the threat faced by millions of young people in our schools.
SOS to the FATF
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 23, 2026 - 12:00am
Calling the Financial Action Task Force... please look into one of the biggest sources of money laundering in this country: election campaign finance.
The amici curiae
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 21, 2026 - 12:00am
After that awesome display of erudition by retired Supreme Court justices last Wednesday, no one seems to dare make a fearless forecast on how senators will vote on the issues for which the justices were invited...
Institutionalizing dynasties
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 18, 2026 - 12:00am
On the same day that the Supreme Court issued a rare directive to Congress, telling its co-equal branch to pass an anti-dynasty law as mandated 39 years ago by the Constitution, lawmakers rushed the passage of a...
Red flags in the BARMM vote
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 16, 2026 - 12:00am
In Maluso, Basilan, over 16,000 ballots – about half of the entire voting population in the town – were found to have been pre-shaded.
Medical gobbledygook
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
Who’s the looter?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 11, 2026 - 12:00am
On the eve of the birth anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the nation learned that his widow Imelda had been acquitted by the Supreme Court on the seven counts of graft for which she was convicted by a lower court...
VIP refuge
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 9, 2026 - 12:00am
What amazing serendipity.
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