January 27, 2024
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. […]
January 13, 2024
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 […]
January 6, 2024
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 […]
December 30, 2023
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 […]
December 23, 2023
The Senate of the Philippines is poised to approve a new maritime zone law that will supposedly seek to implement the 2016 arbitral tribunal decision adjudicating the Philippines’ case against China in the West Philippine Sea. In its website the Senate listed Senate Bill No. 2492 (In substitution of Senate Bill Nos. 852, 1089, 1353, […]
December 16, 2023
Right after the conduct of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on October 30, 2023 and immediately after the winning Punong Barangays from the 128 Barangays were administered their oath by City Mayor Benjamin Magalong right in front of City Hall the barangay chief executives began earnest preparations for the LIGA ng mga Barangay […]
December 9, 2023
To those Barangay officials who have served for quite a number of years, either finishing their three terms of nine years as an elective official or by virtue of enjoying the benefit of an extended term thru the issuance of a law, they would surely be intimately familiar with their organization the Liga ng mga […]
December 2, 2023
After more or less fifty years of conflict between the democratic government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Communist Party of the Philippines, and its armed the New Peoples’ Army (NPA), both sides seemed to have softened their stance and have taken the opportunity to sit down once more and attempt to talk […]
November 26, 2023
The brutal and devastating war in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is all about land and the territory that can be had from it. It was never about religion but the very soil upon which the Jews and the Palestinians insist and claim as their own. For those who […]
November 11, 2023
A little more than a month has passed since Hamas militants launched a surprise attack and incursion into Israeli territory and waged a brutal campaign that took the lives of more than 1,400 people and the kidnapping of more than 240 others, some of them foreign nationals. Not one to be cowed and intimidated by […]