Chief o' lies insults nation's intelligence

Four American presidents have been assassinated in office. Abraham Lincoln was the first to be slain in 1865 followed by James Garfield in 1881. The beginning of the 20th Century witnessed the killing of President William McKinley in 1901.

It would be another six decades before the November 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy made him the fourth and last American president to be assassinated.

There is a lamentable cost to the assassination of a Head of State. Political assassinations are different from other murders both in motivation and in consequences. A bullet fired by Serbian nationalist killing Austria’s Archduke in 1914 sparked the First World War which arguably paved way to the Second.

Editor's Comment
Micro-procurement maze demands urgent reform

Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...

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