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In the end, the question is not merely whether Sara Duterte can run in 2028. It is whether the country is prepared to confront the tension between political power and legal accountability, and what it means when the two collide long before a single vote is cast.
Endaya notes that nothing has really changed: The situation repeats itself…While technology has changed from prerecorded messages in cassette tapes to today’s instantaneous text messages and video calls through smartphones, the materialism continues. OFWs shower their children with expensive goods like Nike shoes to make up for their absence; the children have lost affection and nurturance.
Defunding foreign-assisted projects did not save money. It wasted it. It froze infrastructure, raised costs, slowed growth, weakened investor confidence, and shifted the burden onto those with the least protection.
Retaining its Filipino spirit, Philippine Art Deco is characterized with “an eclectic and hybrid interpretation” of traditional motifs integrated with the international style of Art Deco. Using stylized tropical flora such as bamboo, coconut tree, mangoes, bananas, sampaguita, as well as Mindanao’s okir designs, capiz shells, and indigenous textile patterns provided a rich overlay of forms and textures.
Madriaga, in a notarized affidavit dated Nov. 29, 2025 claimed that Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, security chief at the OVP, made him deliver large sums of money taken from Duterte’s confidential funds at the OVP and the DepEd to several persons “thus confirming how Respondent Duterte and her co-respondents converted the subject confidential funds to their own personal use, contrary to the actual purposes for which the same was earmarked and/or purportedly disbursed.”
State-related violence remains widespread in the last month of 2025. Certain regions, such as Eastern Visayas and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, have become consistent hotspots of state-related violence.
Sen. Ping Lacson: Your noise will not silence the truth; neither does it provide any help in our investigation. Your noise cannot convict – and won’t even indict the malefactors in this flood control mess. Only evidence does.
When Chinese vessels continue to challenge Philippine maritime rights, block resupply missions, and assert claims rejected by international law, easing entry requirements risks being read not as confidence but concession.
A netizen boldly asks: Is government wavering on Escudero and Villanueva? Is there an orchestrated move to absolve them from complicity in the flood control scam? Has Escudero used his reported closeness to Liza Araneta Marcos to whitewash his case? Do Escudero and Villanueva have the goods against President Marcos Jr. that prevents him from pursuing their prosecution?
The annual procession of Jesus Nazareno, also known as the Black Nazarene, held every 9th of January on the streets of Quiapo in Manila is an awesome scene of deep faith and devotion, not many can fully understand.
