It is, by all measures, an unprecedented legal victory. Even if, all Filipinos must be reminded, it took all of 45 years to achieve. And even then, justice has yet to be fully served since the principal accused have since passed away, putting them beyond the reach of an earthly comeuppance. (We can only pray the celestial powers had long ago rendered their verdict and imposed the proper punishments.) Still, despite the caveats, the recent Supreme
One realizes that our economic managers—nay, the whole administration—must always cast things in their most positive light. That’s part of the job. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this has become much more of a challenge. And the coming 2022 elections put even more pressure on them. It has gotten so that one would think, from what they say, that there is nothing wrong with the economy, and the Philippines has gotten the COVID-19 pandemic well in hand. And yet, when reading the updates and outlooks of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), the reality
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