There was a report from the Philippine Central Bank (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) last week that caught my attention. BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo warned that money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has peaked and may soon plateau.
 
Guinigundo said remittances have breached a very large base, leading to a situation wherein the [...]

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is not done yet. Contrary to what she told the military during her farewell address, Arroyo is not just ready to fade away. After nine long years of near tyrannical power in Malacanang, this lady wants more. It became obvious a few years before she was to bow out of the presidency [...]

President Benigno S. Aquino III has to do more than vow to go after the perpetrators of the latest spate of political killings in the Philippines. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo also vowed to go after the killers, but beyond forming Task Force Usig in the military, not one political murder was solved during her nine years [...]

I just don’t get it. Why do Philippine education officials insist that the solution to the country’s fast-sliding standard of education is to add one or two more years of schooling?
 
                After earlier proposals by the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education to add an extra year between the sixth grade [...]

It won’t be until noon of June 30 that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will exit Malacanang, but I can’t wait to bid her farewell. Goodbye Gloria, but no thanks for the bad memories. You said you will just fade away after that day, but I assure you that you will not be forgotten.
 
Infamy awaits you [...]

With the recent ruling by the Ombudsman to clear Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her husband Mike Arroyo of involvement in the controversial $329-million NBN-ZTE deal, it has become even more important that incoming President Noynoy Aquino make good on his promise to create a special commission to investigate allegations of corruption during the Arroyo administration.
 
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When the Supreme Court voted 9-1 to allow Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to appoint the successor of retiring Chief Justice Reynato Puno despite the constitutional ban on midnight appointments, several opinion makers, including this writer, criticized the ruling, saying that the controversial decision opened the “Arroyo court” to questions of credibility and integrity.
 
            In an article [...]

I must confess having been guilty of paranoia. But I don’t feel I was alone because millions of Filipinos have been used to too much lying and scheming by the outgoing Arroyo administration, it just seemed improbable that the just concluded election would proceed without massive cheating, confusion, violence and other factors that could lead [...]

On May 10, the Filipino people will troop to the polls to elect the man
who would succeed Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and who would be tasked with
straightening up the mess that his predecessor had put the country
into. Tough challenges await the winner, perhaps as tough, if not
tougher than what the late President Cory Aquino had to [...]

Although we had expected a whitewash of the cases against the Ampatuans of Maguindanao because of the family’s close “friendship” to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the decision of Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra to drop murder charges against ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and his cousin Akmad Ampatuan  – even before the court could hear all testimonies [...]