January 21, 2023
The Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) brouhaha has apparently been resolved with the National Electrification Administration (NEA) imposing its authority by finally revoking and recalling the appointment of a general manager issued by its own Board of Administrators ( BOA) , suspending for several months some of the officers of BENECO and removing all current director […]
January 14, 2023
After Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. called for the courtesy resignation of colonels and generals to jumpstart an investigation into the purported involvement of police officials in the illegal drug trade he again announced that those who submitted their resignations will have to undergo a lifestyle check. Immediately some critics have […]
January 7, 2023
The recent call of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos for Philippine National Police (PNP) officers with rank of colonel and general to tender their courtesy resignations as a means to discover those involved in the illegal drugs trade speaks loudly of how the drug menace has blossomed right under […]
December 30, 2022
Republic Act 11934 also known as an “Act Requiring the Registration of Subscriber Identity Module” has now been officially implemented and would require all cellphone users to register their SIM cards within 180 days else it would be deactivated. The law, for all the negative feedback it has received from concerned sectors, is actually one […]
December 24, 2022
Make no mistake the City of Baguio is on its way to recovering from the pandemic brought about by the COVID-19 virus and its variants both in the economic and social side of things. For one residents of the city have begun to congregate more numerously in public areas such as parks, malls, the public […]
December 17, 2022
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTFELCAC) had its 10 Billion budget restored under the final version of the 2023 General Appropriations Bill after both houses of Congress arrived at a compromise during their bicameral conference. Certainly nothing wrong with that considering that the NTF-ELCAC is a whole of nation approach […]
December 4, 2022
The renewed effort to consolidate and merge the 128 Barangays in the City of Baguio is once again at the forefront in a lot of peoples minds particularly those who are serving as barangay officials in the community. This is expected since any kind of merging or ‘amalgamation’ of barangays will naturally affect the position […]
November 25, 2022
There seems to be no end to the discovery by authorities of various unusual and perhaps illegal activities going on within the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa. It was only two weeks back when gangs within the Bilibid voluntarily surrendered thousands of cans of beer that allegedly cost 1,000 pesos each inside, illegal drugs, […]
November 20, 2022
The title of this column is an idiom that means “a person or situation that arouses suspicion or doubt”. We connect this idiom to the recent events and circumstances surrounding the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) in Muntinlupa and the alleged involvement of suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) director general Gerald Bantag in the violent death […]
November 12, 2022
The editorial by the national newspaper Inquirer titled “Lessons from ‘Paeng’”was dead on when it highlighted the fact that the “high death toll and extent of destruction” brought about by severe tropical storm “Paeng” (international name ‘Nalgae’”, was due mainly to government’s failure to implement recommended measures to prevent such severe destruction and loss of […]