or Maurice Phillip Alexis “MP” Albayda is the vice mayor of Kalayaan, Palawan. He writes mainly about Kalayaan and the West Philippine Sea, which he knows firsthand, as well as politics and other local and national issues.
I’ve walked the halls of local government long enough to recognize certain sounds: pens scratching across contracts, envelopes being shuffled, and the cough that...
A notification rang from my Messenger app in the hours before dawn. It carried news that shook political circles across the province: Richristopher “Pay...
“Double whammy.”
That was how one of the staunchest advocates for Malampaya-Camago described the recent decision of the High Court allowing commercial fishing companies to...