Editorial

Thirty-nine years is a long time to wait for the implementation of a constitutional command. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court en banc has now said so with unmistakable clarity. The High Court unanimously ruled that Congress’s failure to pass an anti-political dynasty law under Article II, Section 26 …

For several years now, the Second Congressional Commission on Education or EDCOM 2 has been raising the need for more guidance counselors in public schools. As of August 2024, public elementary and secondary schools lacked some 5,000 guidance counselors, according to EDCOM 2. At the time, bullying in schools was …

Fifty-four years ago, Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law, ostensibly to bring peace and order, but mostly to perpetuate himself in power, allowing him to circumvent the two-term limit set for presidents under the 1935 Constitution. Wielding absolute power, Marcos set off to finish rewriting the 1935 Constitution, …

The Philippines has something the world cannot easily copy. Filipinos who can imagine, create, tell stories, entertain, design, innovate and connect with audiences across cultures. The latest numbers tell us that creativity is no longer merely a cultural asset. It is an economic force. The Philippine Statistics Authority reports that …

Thirty-nine years is an extraordinarily long period of defiance of a constitutional mandate. Yet this is precisely the prevailing situation confronting the country. Now, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress has a mandatory constitutional duty to enact a law prohibiting political dynasties. In its Aug. 26, 2026 decision, made …

With ube going global, the Department of Agriculture has banned the export of fresh purple yam to protect local planting materials. Whether the ban comes too late will be known soon enough, if other countries with advanced agricultural and food processing industries begin selling ube products sourced from their own …

The Philippine economy has received a welcome vote of confidence from one of the region’s biggest financial institutions. Singapore-based DBS Bank Ltd. expects the country to grow by an average 5.8 percent annually from 2026 to 2035, the second-fastest pace among Southeast Asia’s six major economies, behind only Vietnam. The …

Just two weeks after the Department of Education conducted a National Simultaneous School Safety Drill in both private and public elementary and high schools, at least three Grade 8 students were killed and six wounded in yet another shooting incident yesterday afternoon, this time in South Cotabato. Authorities said a …

The Senate impeachment court now faces a constitutional question that is deceptively simple but profoundly consequential: How many votes should be required to convict Vice President Sara Duterte? At first glance, the arithmetic appears settled. Article XI, Section 3(6) of the 1987 Constitution says that no impeached official may be …

House speaker Martin Romualdez pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the plunder charge filed against him over P7.4 billion in kickbacks that he allegedly received from anomalous flood control projects. Romualdez has consistently maintained his innocence in the serious charges filed against him by the Office of the Ombudsman. In …