Delivering justice JUDICIAL reform is tops in the task-list of newly appointed Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. She’s starting off with transparency by ordering the release of her Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Net Worth, looking at the prospect of eventually institutionalizing the practice of public disclosure among servants…

Inspiration from a servant mayor FACES in the long queue at the wake of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo at his hometown Naga City spoke of sadness over their loss and respect for a man who served them well. In Manila, people not only lined up on the…

Pass the FOI Act now!  
 IT is now 2012, or over 26 years after the EDSA Revolution, which brought democracy back to the Philippines. Filipinos today enjoy the freedoms of speech, of the press, and of peaceable assembly for redress of just grievances. But one other inalienable freedom that…

Poetic justice IT WAS a ghastly site, the heaps of trash dumped by currents along the Manila Bay area, famous for its beautiful sunset view. The sea, of course, bears no blame — it was merely hauling back to the perpetrators the rubbish they have indiscriminately dumped in the bosom…

Managing water HEADWAYS have unquestionably been achieved in disaster-preparedness in Pangasinan and efforts towards reducing risks are continuing. Just last week, the provincial government, through the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC), conducted the first tsunami drill at Barangay Tobuan, Labrador as the culminating activity for the National Disaster…