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“Utang na Loob” is one distinct Filipino trait which distinguishes us from our neighboring asian counterparts. It implores upon every individual to look back with gratitude to those who have extented a good deed in any way and therefore obliges us to pay back the same …

Bantay Kurapsyon: An award-winning anti-corruption campaign

A former school teacher [...]

It was six in the morning and the flurry of screeching tires and deafening horns truly made my day bad. Though such early morning dilemma (at least for those who were accustomed to cool, quite mornings in Oroquieta City) I had already been through during my college days here in Iligan City, I had difficulty [...]

Nganong ang balayronon sa tubig sa Oroquieta mahal man kaayo kumpara sa

Bantay Kurapsyon: An award-winning anti-corruption campaign by Paul Pastrano Gangoso

ubang syudad? Dili pa gayud mainom?
Sulod sa pipila ka katuigan, ang Misamis Occidental Water District  ang nag-inusarang ahensya nga nagahatag ug patubig ngadto sa mga kabalayan ug mga establismento  sa distrito uno sa atong probinsya. [...]

Kumusta na ang Love Gift sa CENRO-DENR?  Aduna pa ba?

Bantay Kurapsyon: An award-winning anti-corruption campaign by Paul Pastrano Gangoso

Ang “Love Gift” sa DENR mao kanang ginapanigil sa CENRO isip bayad sa pag-proseso sa permit to transport sa imong mga kahoy nga giputol. Kasagaraan sa mokuha niining permit mao kadtong mga operators ug bansohan. Sakop sa [...]

Aduna ko’y love gift  alang sa mga kurakot nga personahe sulod sa CENRO- Oroquieta: “ Mga baga mo ug nawong!”
“Love gift”, mao kana ang bag-ong tawag niining mga kurakot nga opisyales sa DENR karon sa ilang ginapangayo nga kickback sa mga negosyante sa Misamis Occidental. Love gift ha, kada adlaw mo nag Valentine’s Day dira [...]

A ticker tape parade in the city of Manila, a grand welcome in Mindanao and a possible unprecedented military promotion await newly crowned International Boxing Organization (IBO) junior welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao upon his return to the country on Friday.
The sensational victory, with a lot of people glued to their television sets long after the [...]

The Office of the Ombudsman today (19 March) ordered the filing of Plunder and other criminal charges against 23 officials of the Dept. of Finance (DOF) and private individuals for defrauding the government of more than P73.76M in the form of tax credits issued from 1994 to 1996.

In an 81-page Joint Resolution, the Office [...]

The Office of the Ombudsman, in coordination with the Asian Development Bank, Griffith University and the University of the Philippines conducted a research symposium recently for the Center for Asian Integrity (CAI), Asia-Pacific’s first regional anti-corruption university.

Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas N. Gutierrez led the opening of the symposium, which aims to generate ideas for [...]

Over the recent death of Ka Ernie Rollin, a hard-hitting radio commentator in Misamis Occidental, one thing stirred my head: how come media kills media? Yes, in Ka Rollin’s death, the media community of Ozamis City failed in its utmost sense to stand where it should. By failing to do so, they have contributed in [...]

We wish to convey our deepest sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family of Ernie Rollin. The whole community of media practitioners in Oroquieta City and Misamis Occidental is one with you in the search for justice to his untimely death.

While we understand the utmost risk involving the nature [...]