“The United States remained the top source of cash remittances to the Philippines in January and February 2026 – accounting for 40 per cent of the total – followed by Singapore and Saudi Arabia,” the BSP said. Japan (5.3%), the United Kingdom (4.7%), the United Arab Emirates (4.2%), Canada (3.1%), Taiwan (3%), Qatar (2.9%), and Hong Kong (2.7%) are countries where significant remittances came from.
“Each year, we honor outstanding champions of social justice who stand up to oppression, even at great personal risk, in the nonviolent pursuit of human rights,” the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center said.
Weather experts warn of massive agricultural damage through severe water shortages and high temperatures due to a “Super El Niño” feared to affect the Philippines and neighboring countries in the west Pacific within the year.
“We are not concerned with academic records or law school transcripts. What we—and the Filipino people—demand are clear answers on how P612.5 million in confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education were used, accounted for, and whether these served legitimate public purposes,” Makabayan said.
Activist group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan condemned Marcos’ refusal, saying the president is only focused on “band-aid, piece-meal measures” that are “grossly inadequate given the magnitude of the crisis.” “We must continue to hold the Marcos Jr. regime to account for its extremely slow and insufficient response 45 days into the crisis,” the group said.
The office of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte spent the P125 million in confidential funds not in 11 days but in just under 24 hours,
“The burden of fuel taxes isn’t from the poor buying fuel directly, but from how so much of what they buy – especially food – has oil taxes embedded in their price,” Africa said.
Ask Sara to just write her reactions, if she can, or better still, order her consultants to write credible speeches. Letting her talk is torture as no one can make heads or tails of what she is perorating about. Talk of a female version of Trump.
Tinio, Elago and Co pointed out that it is ordinary citizens who suffer from Trump-instigated war in the region and should not be made to absorb another wave of price surges due to the failure of the talks in Islamabad.
Accepted as a state witness in ongoing investigations, Santos’ revelations cast a wider net of corruption involving private contractors, government officials and agencies across two presidential administrations.
