The smuggling of agricultural goods is a scourge that the Philippines can't seem to eliminate, despite efforts of policymakers to put in place laws aimed at punishing offenders. This illegal activity continues to plague the local agricultural sector and has been cited as one of the major factors behind the…
Based on the poll surveys, it seems that Vice President Leni Robredo and the other presidentiables are not gaining much ground, if they are making any, on the frontrunner, former Senator Bongbong Marcos. The numbers and ranking of the six prominent aspirants, to wit: BBM, VP Leni Robredo, Mayor Isko Moreno,…
Without counting the 1986 snap presidential contest between President Ferdinand E. Marcos and challenger Cory C. Aquino since the final number of votes obtained by the two protagonists was never settled, our last majority elected president was President Marcos when he overwhelmingly defeated Senator Sergio Osmeña, Jr. in the 1969…
Editorial After the seizure of some P50 million worth of bagged 1-piso coins in a Quezon City warehouse, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas sounded a call for “the passage of a law on the hoarding of an extremely large volume of coins, as the central bank believes that the criminalization of this acti