September 30, 2023
Not having been out of town for a while and visiting a city in the Bicol region for the first time, for a seminar conducted by the Personnel Officers Association of the Philippines, Inc.,left a most satisfying impression for this writer. Preparing for the seminar with a little online research led to the discovery that […]
September 23, 2023
Desperate times call for desperate measures and from hindsight this may have been what compelled the CPP-NPA-NDF to execute a false flag operation against the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and thereby embarrass the government. A false flag operation as generally defined “is an act committed with the intent of […]
September 17, 2023
The matter of ensuring peace and order in the country does not only belong or the exclusive burden of certain public officials, agencies, departments or offices of the national government. This is an issue and situation that involves a whole of nation approach or the gamut of stakeholders who stand to benefit from a tranquil […]
September 10, 2023
The Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections is well underway and on October 30, 2023 we will know who our next set of village leaders will govern the 42,001 barangays in the country. This is one of the most important political exercises in the country with the exception perhaps of the election to choose the […]
September 1, 2023
Republic Act 7160 also known as the Local Government Code of 1991 expressly provides for the creation and role of a Barangay. There are actually three important sections of the Local Government code that deals with the Barangay. Sections 385 and 386 deals with the manner of creating a barangay as well as the necessary […]
August 26, 2023
Whatever way you look at it the reported death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary force, will not be a sad day to anyone, except perhaps to those who benefitted from his benevolence and wealth and agreed to do his bidding in terrorizing the rest of the world. If ever there will […]
August 19, 2023
Issues hounding the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa never seems to run out of steam and always comes out in the headlines especially when it comes to shenanigans inside the penitentiary or infidelities committed while watching over persons deprived of liberty (PDL). The recent missing PDL case, the alleged human cadaver found inside a septic […]
August 12, 2023
The Chinese government is slowly starting to realize that with the pivot of the Philippine government back towards the good old US of A their carrot and stick diplomacy with the country has begun to unravel. Their usually benign attitude towards our diplomatic protests over their continued violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity is […]
August 5, 2023
SAGIP Party List representative Rodante Marcoleta, came out with both barrels blazing when he gave a ten-minute speech in Congress to assail statements issued by Baguio City mayor Honorable Benjamin Magalong alluding to the alleged inability of the members of Congress to let go of their pork barrel and issues of corruption surrounding it. While […]
July 23, 2023
“Gently in manner, firmly in action/deed”, this is the general translation of the title of this column and mentioned in the last sentence of the conclusion of an examination of the Philippines Anti-terror law passed previously as the Human Security Act of 2007 (HSA) by Brent H. Lew an author and lawyer in the US. […]