Isn’t corruption stupid?
The reality unblinkered by moralizing is that growth and development don’t follow the elimination of corruption – economic progress, rising productivity and state discipline narrowed the space for it. Clean governance can’t substitute for a development strategy.
ICI was created to protect BBM – BAYAN
ICI’s sin of omission is its willful dismissal of the allegation that Marcos is culpable for the large-scale corruption under his administration, the alliance said.
Leandro Leviste sinks into a hell hole
The DOE has slapped Leviste with a P24-billion fine for not producing the electricity he was required to produce under 43 contracts, 33 of which were complete failures.
Gov’t files criminal charges vs anti-corruption advocates
“The PNP and the Marcos regime are sending a warning to dissenters: they will be prosecuted for their public statements or social media posts.”
PH economy beyond official press releases
Grand-scale corruption so overwhelmingly captured public attention in the last half of 2025 that fixing the economy’s slippage barely entered the conversation. Yet there is much to talk about—apart from slowing growth, the recent labor force, inflation, and self-rated poverty figures point to deep problems.
Why FMRs won’t boost agriculture
The ₱243-billion unprogrammed appropriations (UA) also serves as a massive presidential slush fund with no clear safeguards. It is notoriously known as a super-discretionary fund that does not pass muster genuine generally acceptable auditing procedures.
Farm-to-pocket roads bonanza
KMP warned that the expansion of FMR funding, amid weak transparency and accountability mechanisms, will only worsen corruption in congressional districts. Without genuine farmer participation, public disclosure, and strict accountability, these projects will remain symbols of waste and exploitation.
Bitter 2026 budget for public servants
This, Tinio explained, would direly affect 259,000 contract-of-service (COS) workers and over 41,000 professors and staffers in state universities and colleges (SUCs) already trapped under conditions of arduous contractual work with very low pay.
Retention of pork barrel puzzles SWP
It is now evident that for all its protestations in weeding out graft, that Malacanang dog still won’t hunt.
Sara as supersensitive ‘Chucky’
Sara is also a lawyer but her call for Castro to be sanctioned for issuing a fair comment stretches the bounds of credulity. There are no lese majeste laws in the Philippines that apply to monarchs and the princess of San Pedro, Davao City.