Phl a failing state: 12 signs show so

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | March 7, 2014 - 12:00am

Social inequalities, economic decline, flawed elections, dynastic politics, large-scale corruption, and foreign military incursions remain unresolved.

Aide recounts ‘pork’ scams since ’90s (1)

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | February 10, 2014 - 12:00am

“Upon receipt of SAROs, contractors would remit 30-percent kickbacks, called ‘S.O.P’, ‘rebate,’ or ‘commission’.”

What happens when pork barrel goes?

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | September 27, 2013 - 12:00am

Simple, the yearly P27.5 billion would be put to better use in the right agencies and needy provinces.

Senators’ emerging alibi for pork scam: Dumbness

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | September 20, 2013 - 12:00am

In claiming to have been fooled by their aides, they’d rather demean themselves before the public than face jail time. They forget that fiduciary dumbness is a non-bailable crime.

The angry middle class: A majority un-silenced

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | September 9, 2013 - 12:00am

The multibillion-peso plunder of pork barrels is but one of many entwined grievances. Next for attack and overhaul are perennial joblessness, hunger, homelessness.

Impropriety issue remains

March 3, 2010 - 12:00am

Thank you for giving me space. I am being dragged into the impropriety of Justice Renato Corona’s wife, Ma. Cristina R. Corona, heading John Hay Management Corp. (JHMC), a GOCC under the Office of the President....

Letters to the Editor

Faith in our Lord Jesus heals!

By Bobit S. Avila | June 28, 2009 - 12:00am

Our Gospel reading for this Sunday is actually two stories rolled into one teaching. First is the story of Jarius’ daughter and, in between that story, a miracle happens to the woman suffering from years ...

Freeman Opinion

Jesus Christ: The resurrection and the life!

By Bobit S. Avila | July 2, 2006 - 12:00am

It's the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's Gospel reading comes from Mark 5:21-43. When Jesus had crossed again [in the boat] to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to...

Freeman Opinion

Freedom of the press

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | August 25, 2003 - 12:00am

I have no desire to dwell anew on the furor that ensured when President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo upbraided GMA-7 reporter Tina Panganiban-Perez for having interviewed fugitive Sen. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan. The curtains...