Day: November 26, 2025
Zamboanga Sibugay Farmers Get P2.4M Carabao Multiplier Farm From DA
ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY – The Department of Agriculture (DA) has turned over a P2.4-million carabao multiplier farm to farmers in Titay town, underscoring the continuing importance of carabao dispersal programs for rural livelihoods and food security. In a statement on Tuesday, November 25, the DA-Zamboanga Peninsula said the Titay East Corn Cluster Association received the livestock
COMMENTARY: A GATEKEEPER OF POWER, NOT PUBLIC TRUST
Lucas Bersamin’s ascent to the position of Executive Secretary in September 2022 was not greeted with applause but with suspicion—and rightly so. The so-called “Little President,” a post that demands unimpeachable integrity and absolute public confidence, was handed to a man whose judicial record has long been tainted by political undertones. Bersamin’s years in the
DOH pushes total vape ban amid rising youth use, misleading ads
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) is calling for a nationwide total ban on vape products, warning that the devices—often marketed as safer, trendier, and even “nicotine-free” alternatives to cigarettes—pose serious and long-term health risks. In a statement, the DOH slammed vape advertising campaigns that portray the products as harmless substitutes to smoking.
ANALYSIS: Food Security Time Bomb As Philippine Farmland Disappears
The Philippines is losing its farmland at a pace and scale that now threatens the country’s long-term food security. New figures from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) show a steep decline in the land devoted to food production, underscoring a decades-old policy failure: the absence of a coherent national land use law that can protect
From Palace Power To Red Notice: The Legal Freefall Of Harry Roque
MANILA – Once a fixture behind the Malacañang podium, former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque now in the Netherlands, fighting to stay in Europe as Philippine authorities push for his deportation. The man who once defended controversial policies under the Duterte administration is now the subject of an Interpol Red Notice – an international alert usually
Why Transparency Reforms In DPWH, DA Won’t Work Without Empowered Citizens
The Department of Agriculture’s plan to launch FMR Watch, an online platform for monitoring farm-to-market road (FMR) projects, signals a familiar move in the government’s attempt to clean up agencies long plagued by corruption. Like the transparency tools rolled out earlier by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the DA’s new system aims
