Opinion

There’s going to be a monumental shift in official policy if the House of Representatives approves resolutions calling on government to allow the International Criminal Court to enter the country and investigate the Duterte administration’s bloody war on illegal drugs from 2016 to 2019. Last week, the joint committees on …

Deforestation, recognized by forest experts as a serious global problem which has not excluded the Philippines, is denuding areas of tall, mostly evergreen trees. In 2010, the Philippines had 13.2 million hectares of natural forest, extending over 62 percent of its land area. By 2022, it lost 62.9 thousands of …

It’s been described as the fastest agreement on nuclear energy as it was signed after the conclusion of negotiations between the Philippines and the United States only a month before. We’re referring to “Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy,” or the so-called 123 Agreement, signed last November …

The bad news is that Chinese President Xi Jinping was non-committal when, at the sidelines of the recent APEC summit in San Francisco, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. raised the issue of free access by our fisherfolk to our Exclusive Economic Zone in the West Philippine Sea. Those who expected the …

Meteorologists have raised a warning for people to be vigilant while experiencing rains due to the shear line and the northeast monsoon. Aircraft and ships are also forewarned with this wind shear phenomenon, the change in speed and direction of wind over a short distance, most often caused by microbursts …

Climate change, seen by storm chasers as an urgent threat to millions of lives, has become the most serious threat to life. But climatologists agree there are solutions and they are well understood. In 2015, world leaders signed a major treaty called the Paris agreement to put these into practice. …

What can P670 million do? On the part of the legislative and executive branches of government, plenty. Working in tandem, the House of Representatives and the Department of Social Work and Community Development recently launched a program to distribute P670 million worth of financial and rice assistance to an initial …

Climate change, a pressing global crisis that transcends national boundaries, will come under sharper focus for two weeks in Dubai starting end of this month. The crisis requires the decision-making processes of more than 70,000 delegates, including heads of state and of governments as well as world leaders from 197 …

You could be forgiven for thinking that, based on the headline that appeared recently in a daily broadsheet, the country is indeed going to the dogs, that things are getting even worse than usual, that Philippine society is in a state of decay and therefore, ripe for revolution. The headline? …

After trolls flooded social media with hypocritical demands for accountability, the Commission on Audit reports the House of Representatives has had a commendable track record from 2017 to 2022. “For CY 2022 and prior years, no Notice of Suspension, Notice of Disallowance, and Notice of Charge was issued,” according to …