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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 29, 2013
  • Reading time:7 mins read

Aquino can stop the P8-B electricity rip-off

(This column appeared on Dec. 23 but we are running it again because of an editing error. Mr. Tiglao’s regular column will resume on January 5.) That is, if President…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 22, 2013
  • Reading time:8 mins read

Aquino can stop the P8-B electricity rip-off

That is, if President Aquino is willing to do so, and willing to risk the ire of his corporate backers in the industry. That is, if he has the competence…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 20, 2013
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Be angry at Meralco’s rate hike

Very angry in fact—the steep electricity cost is sheer highway robbery of Meralco’s more than five million customers, most of them poor. Its audacity is shameless, executed during the Christmas…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 17, 2013
  • Reading time:5 mins read

Electricity prices under Aquino the highest ever

If  containing electricity prices—which not only affects the country’s investment attractiveness but also the lower and middle classes’ well-being—were a gauge of stewardship, President Aquino’s administration is a failure. There…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 15, 2013
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Social media rising: Roxas video nears 1M views

Secretary Mar Roxas’ disputation with Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez a few days after Yolanda devastated his city has turned out to be a milestone, not only because it marks the…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 12, 2013
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Arrogance of power: ‘Bahala kayo sa buhay n’yo!’

It turns out that Mayor Alfred Romualdez wasn’t telling everything when he said in a congressional hearing Monday that Secretary Mar Roxas, President Aquino’s point-man in Tacloban after the super…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 10, 2013
  • Reading time:6 mins read

‘You are a Romualdez, and the President is an Aquino’

That, according to Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez, was what Interior and Local Government secretary Mar Roxas told him two days after super typhoon devastated his city and he was asking…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 8, 2013
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Aquino used agrarian reform funds as pork barrel

More and more, President Aquino seems to deserve the Pork Barrel King moniker. It wasn’t just money from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF)—the official pork-barrel kitty—and later from the…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 7, 2013
  • Reading time:8 mins read

We needed then, and need now a Mandela

Read the editorials and obituaries of major newspapers around the globe, and you’ll be astounded by the outpouring of praise upon South African leader Nelson Mandela, who passed away December…

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  • Post author:Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Post published:December 5, 2013
  • Reading time:7 mins read

Stop the ‘not so serious’ media murders

For somebody like pinch-hitting spokesman Herminio Coloma, who is not just a columnist, but even a martial-law era activist, to say that media killings in the country is “not so…

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