A ₱500 Noche Buena may be framed as guidance, but the backlash reveals deeper concerns about dignity, hardship, and a government struggling to read the public’s economic reality.
A ₱500 Noche Buena may be framed as guidance, but the backlash reveals deeper concerns about dignity, hardship, and a government struggling to read the public’s economic reality.
For locals who live with the mess every day, Boracay’s decline is not just environmental but also economic, threatening the livelihoods built around its beauty.
“The Death of Disclosure” reveals how the Ombudsman’s 2012 rules turned the once-powerful SALN into a tool of concealment, proving that transparency in the Philippines did not fade by accident but was buried by policy.
Once a moral safeguard, the SALN has become a ritual of illusion, proof that in Philippine politics, transparency without consequence is not accountability but performance.