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Super Typhoon Pablo (international code name Bopha) hit Davao Oriental and Davao de Oro provinces on December 3, 2012. It was Category 5 and was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever hit Mindanao at 280 km/hr. It surpassed Severe Tropical Storm Sendong (Washi) that hit northern Mindanao a year earlier on December 16, 2011.

While browsing Facebook on Monday, I saw the Paliwan Bridge in Bugasong, Antique had collapsed. Its approaches were washed away so the bridge is now in the middle of a river- a scene that brings back childhood memories of my dangerous and arduous journey through raging rivers during the rainy season.

Atayde's proposal is just one of several measures needed to restore public trust in government. It is in keeping with the ideals of good governance in public service, ridding the bureaucracy of crooks.

Only someone with the credentials of Ruben Carranza can tell the story. Once a commissioner in charge of investigation and litigation at the Presidential Commission for Good Government, he was involved in the prosecution of cases against the family of the conjugal dictators Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos that led to the recovery of $680M in ill-gotten funds from various Swiss banks.

Malaking pagsubok ang pagpatay kay Percy Lapid sa sinseridad ng administrasyong Marcos na gawin ang tama laban sa kriminalidad. Makinig sa komentaryo ni Christian Esguerra ngayong linggo.

Carreon could have immediately quelled allegations and suspicions that Remulla had been given special treatment had he said outright that the Supreme Court had declared mandatory drug testing for drug suspects as unconstitutional.

"Hindi kasalanan ng ama ang kasalanan ng anak."For now, we will park that statement as a vacuous one, especially if it comes from Remulla political ally Bong Revilla. The moral theology of the sin-of-the-father-sin-of-the-son interface is the wrong application for the Remulla son’s riddle on his drug charges.

Hopefully, all other drug suspects will be treated in the same way the law enforcers handled the case of the Justice secretary's son, regardless of their economic status or high connections.

Pulse Asia’s recent survey on “fake news,” which showed that the majority of Filipinos are confident in their ability to tell whether a political news is true or not, indicates their naivety about the tangled web that is social media.

Maging oportunidad sana itong kalbaryo ng pamilyang Remulla para suriin ang problema ng droga sa bansa at magkaroon ng mas kumprehensibong solusyon.

For his last hurrah in office, Rodrigo Duterte had the privilege of spending a total of P4.5 billion in confidential and intelligence funds. How he spent that colossal amount will never be known.

We need decisive and concrete actions now to create more jobs, bring down food prices, and deliver other public services efficiently. Ordinary folks want to have parties, too!