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Stop, thief!
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am
For an agency that is being allocated the lion’s share of the 2025 national budget, at a staggering P1.1 trillion, it’s amazing that the Department of Public Works and Highways cannot build and maintain...
Mary Jane comes home
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
For sure, there will be many epal or credit-grabbing moments with the return to the country today of Mary Jane Veloso.
Nailed to trees
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 16, 2024 - 12:00am
If Chairman George Garcia of the Commission on Elections could have his way, he would hammer a nail into candidates who nail their campaign materials to trees.
Campaign pollution
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 13, 2024 - 12:00am
Politicians polluting public spaces with their campaign materials are not only bad for aesthetics and the environment, they are also bad for your health.
Food innovations
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
In this season of feasting, it’s noteworthy that the government has announced that it would be rolling out a noodle that is OK for diabetics.
No regrets
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
The striking thing about the principal players in the war on drugs is their lack of remorse.
Struck twice over
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The Land Transportation Office under the Department of Transportation should review the performance of its accredited car insurance providers plus their auto repair shop tie-ups. The DOTr-LTO should ensure that the...
Lost school days
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am
Every year on average, 53 school days are lost due to weather disturbances, according to Education Secretary Sonny Angara. In the typhoon-hit Cordilleras alone, he said 35 days have already been lost so far this...
Zarzuela?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - December 2, 2024 - 12:00am
One scenario in the ongoing political storm is that a game of good cop, bad cop is afoot, with the bad one being… never mind.
Sleepy driving
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 29, 2024 - 12:00am
Instead of writing about the intensifying political brawl among the folks who used to be as thick as thieves, I decided to write an article on another problem that has long bedeviled our nation.
Mutual annihilation
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 27, 2024 - 12:00am
If the Dutertes want to become the new opposition, they would have to stop flailing away at their enemies and learn precision assault.
Mass transport
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Since Nov. 16, employees of The STAR living in northern Metro Manila have enjoyed easier travel to the office.
Continuing scams
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 22, 2024 - 12:00am
By mid-December, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas expects to wrap up its probe into a recent spate of unauthorized deductions from GCash accounts.
Phl gov’t probes Rody
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 20, 2024 - 12:00am
Maybe it’s just my imagination, but there seems to be something akin to panic and dismay in some quarters over the news that the Philippine government has finally launched an investigation of Rodrigo Duterte...
In harm’s way
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 18, 2024 - 12:00am
When Super Typhoon Yolanda slammed the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, it first made landfall in the municipality of Guiuan in Eastern Samar.
‘Come and get me’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 15, 2024 - 12:00am
Rodrigo Duterte entered the lion’s den last Wednesday, ready for a mauling.
Following orders
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 13, 2024 - 12:00am
This is the cost of following orders, whether blindly or knowingly, in the Philippine National Police: 214 cops faced 352 criminal charges, with 20 still in detention, for carrying out the war on drugs during the...
Penalizing undue delay
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 11, 2024 - 12:00am
People frustrated with their cases crawling along in the courts should consider filing a complaint before the Judicial Integrity Board.
‘Look what happened’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 8, 2024 - 12:00am
‘In the US, says Filipino-American Democrat Gabriel Young, a person with a criminal conviction can’t be hired at McDonald’s, in line with corporate policy.
Cliffhanger
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - November 6, 2024 - 12:00am
Given the choices we have been making in Philippine elections, we’re in no position to criticize Americans or roll up our eyes in case they restore Donald Trump to the White House.
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