Fill Me In
Of Resignation and Recycling
Was it only 79 days? Barely a little over two months and a half, not even way past the first 100 days of his administration and already, it’s showing signs that the house of cards is slowly falling apart. The latest crumble is the resignation of President Junior’s executive secretary Vi...
The Swings
President Junior left yesterday for a two-nation swing with Indonesia as the first stop, his inaugural/ state visit since he took the reign of Malacanang, after which he goes to the island state of Singapore. Junior’s drumbeaters tagged the visit to Indonesia and Singapore underscores the sig...
No Relief in Sight
Good things come to an end. The downward path in the prices of petroleum products was a temporary bliss. This week, the direction was reversed, pump prices ticked up once more. And no matter the assurance from Junior’s economic team that the government is doing its utmost to tame inflation, t...
Startling News and Its Effect
Over the past weeks, social media has been inundated with news of significant and important personalities who have moved on from this temporal world. Their leaving could be comparable to the passing of an era – President Fidel “Tabacco” Ramos, Cherie Gil dubbed as La Primera Contr...
Shake Up and More
Executive Secretary Victor “Vic” Rodriguez is out of the prying eyes of the mainstream media covering the Palace. The humming sound reverberating around Malacanang Palace grounds is that the Little President, as the executive secretary is so-called, has been temporarily sidelined becaus...
Missing Contra SONA
I may have missed it, but as of this writing, I haven’t read any. Instead, the drumbeaters of the Junior government took the SONA momentum on a high gear by holding, for the first time, a Post-SONA Economic Briefing. As a political journalist, I would always look forward to the day after the ...
Of Polymer and the Public
The first time I encountered the word polymer was in one of my required science classes, back when I was taking up my bachelor’s degree. I’ve forgotten all about it, and I was only reminded when the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced its decision in December last ye...
Warming the Bench
Career foreign service officers have accepted the inevitable that the secretary of their department will, almost, always, be a political appointee. Of the 35 foreign secretaries the country has had starting with Apolinario Mabini in 1899 with the title secretary of foreign relations, far and i...
Doing It Right
This space has been and will always be upright and forthright on its views of events and issues unfolding. I don’t have a rose colored vision, could be a bit myopic at times, but still fills you in on the truth. On the positive side, I agree with Junior’s remark that “road ahead, ...
Conflicted
All is quiet on the waterfront as the saying goes. But, seriously why is the Pink Camp, the constitutionalists in their fold are not making a howler? Or is it because they are not interested in what's happening in the political arena that nobody is moving, especially when there’s a clear...
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