Once upon a time Ombudsman Samuel Martires said, incorrectly, that cases against corrupt government officials could not move forward because no one wanted to testify against them. (The case of the late Dr. Roland Cortez, former medical director of the National Center for Mental Health who filed a plunder complaint against its officials, belies this.) Now he appears to be promoting a culture of obliviousness among Filipinos. In a draft bill recently submitted to the House
For the ninth straight week, pump prices of petroleum products went up last Tuesday, stoking fears of further hikes in the prices of basic commodities. That prospect will make even heavier the already backbreaking burden that COVID-19 pandemic-stricken Filipinos have been carrying since March of last year. The latest round of price hikes of 45 centavos a liter for diesel and P1.15 for gasoline brought pump rates in Metro Manila to a range of P42.95 to P54.62 per liter of diesel and P50.65 to P71.59 for gasoline. From Aug. 31, when the latest string of price hikes began, the total increase has
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