Author: Amianan Balita Ngayon

CHANGE THE GAME

For those who have not yet fully digested the implications of what Congress, both the upper house and the lower house, intend to do with the 1987 Philippine Constitution perhaps now is time to delve deeper into what our lawmakers really want to change in the basic law of the land to obtain a better […]

WHAT THEY WILL CHANGE

For those who have not yet fully digested the implications of what Congress, both the upper house and the lower house, intend to do with the 1987 Philippine Constitution perhaps now is time to delve deeper into what our lawmakers really want to change in the basic law of the land to obtain a better […]

A LAW OF FILIPINOS

The 1987 Philippine Constitution is the supreme and primary law of the Republic of the Philippines as a democratic nation. To ordinary Filipino citizens the Constitution serves as the bedrock of democracy and the basic law by and through which all other laws in the country are subservient. This means that Congress, both the Lower […]

ON DANGEROUS GROUND

This past week the public was witness to two harmful and treacherous attempts to drastically alter the political, social, and economic landscape of the country. The first one was to allegedly use the people to directly amend certain provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution, the very basic law of the land. The alleged mastermind or […]

FINALLY HORIZON THREE

After so many years the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is nearing its objective of fully transforming itself into a modern military force consistent with the plan envisioned and embodied in Republic Act No. 7898 aiming to modernize all branches of the AFP such as the Philippine Air Force (PAF), Philippine Navy (PN) and […]

DANCE THE CHACHA

The 1987 Philippine Constitution, the basic law of the land, is once again in the limelight after a seemingly concerted effort to have it amended has suddenly gained traction thru the so called Peoples Initiative. The Constitution that is sought to be amended provides in Article XVII, Section 2 thereof, “Amendments to this Constitution may […]

THE GIVER AND TAKER

Not quite heaving a sigh of relief yet Senator Jinggoy Estrada must be feeling out of sorts these days after the Fifth Division of the Sandiganbayan acquitted him of plunder, along with the infamous businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, while in the same breath convicting him of one count of bribery and two counts of indirect bribery. […]

UNREASONABLE DEADLINE

The government thru the Land Transportation and Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) seems hell bent in immediately implementing the public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program even if there is a very real possibility that it will create confusion and chaos at its early stages of implementation, or that it will severely affect the livelihood of […]

JEEPNEY MODERNIZATION

Abrupt and sudden changes oftentimes result in disaster particularly when the change to be made was not planned properly in the first place. This seems to be the case with the Public Utility Vehicle (PUV) program of the national government. The program “aims to transform the road sector of public transport through the introduction of […]

THE FLAG STILL FLIES

Despite reports to the contrary the Republic of the Philippines continuous to maintain its visible sovereignty over the Second Thomas Shoal, known to us Filipinos as Ayungin Shoal, by virtue of a rusting ship marooned in the area which flies the Philippine flag. However comical it may seem, the fact that the Philippines had the […]

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