Opinion

ANY day now, the Aquino administration is expected to come out with an executive order (EO) that seeks to institute vital reforms in the mining sector.

THERE is an interesting tug-of-war between the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) and the proponents of renewable energy (RE) with compelling subtexts that could provide a glimpse of what the battle is all about. Hearings at the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on renewable energy have already taken too long. But at the rate the hearings are going, the issue of the application of renewable energy—also called green energy because it does not harm the environment—is still a way from being resolved.

SOME private-sector workers are protesting the reported plan by the Social Security System (SSS) to raise the “premium” it was charging its members, given the need to raise more money to pay for the pension of its retiree-beneficiaries. They also scored the proposed investment by SSS of P50 billion in public-private partnership (PPP) projects.