Category: Opinion

OF KILLINGS AND JUSTICE

The recent declaration made by Department of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla that he would personally block prosecutors from the International Criminal Court (ICC) from entering the country and investigating cases and gathering evidence in connection with the war on drugs of former president Rodrigo Duterte seems a bit exaggerated on the part of the […]

MGA EKSENA SA SEMANA SANTA!

Tapos na ang Semana Santa ngunit maraming eksena ang sumabay at naging kontrobersiya. Ito ang ating hihimayin sa ating daplis baka makaambag ng kahit munting alalay o tapik: Ayon sa mga ulat mula sa mga otoridad…umabot o baka lagpas pa ng walumpo-katao ang nasawi noong Semana Santa na karamihan ay pagkalunod. May mga nalunod dahil […]

THE PHILIPPINE MAP

A new craze has been circulating in social media which entails one to identify what areas in the country you have been to. The Philippine Map Challenge, for those who have gone through most of the areas in the Philippines it will become a reminiscent journey of people and places you have visited, often bringing […]

ANYARE?

UNA sa lahat, isang paumanhin ang dapat lang maipaabot sa lahat. Napilitang ulitin – parang repeat performance – ang kolum ng nakaraang lingo, dahil sa pinalawig ang non-working holidays dahil sa Semanta Santa. Gayun pa man, bigyang daan natin ang ilang mga pagninilay bilang mga obserbasyon sa nagdaang lima at kalahating araw na bakasyon. Una, […]

“CASINO JUNKET OPERATION SCAM, IPINAKO NA SA KRUS NG SEC”

“Ipinako na sa krus” ng Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ang casino junket na namayagpag sa Baguio City at Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) at sa iba pang sulok ng bansa kung saan sila nakapaglinlang ng napakaraming tao. Ipinag-utos ng SEC nitong Marso 16, 2023 sa bisa ng Cease-and-desist-order (CDO) sa Horizon Players Club, Philippine National […]

TRANSPARENCY OF EDCA

The government has just announced and finally identified the four new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites in the country. The new EDCA locations which were ostensibly inspected and assessed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are the Camilo Osias Naval Base in Sta. Ana Cagayan, the Balacbac Island in Palawan, Camp Melchor […]

SEMANA SANTA….. NOON AT NGAYON

Sa tradisyon ng pagngingilin ng mga Romano Katoliko, mga Kristyano, at iba pang sekta na nagoobserba sa tradisyon ng Semana Santa (hindi po nilalahat), meron bang pagkakaiba NOON at NGAYON? MALAKI. At yan ang nais ibahagi ng Daplis Semana Edition sa mga mahal naming taga-subaybay. Sana may mapulot kayong aral: NOON…taimtim na mga dalangin ang […]

PERFORMATURA FESTIVAL 2023

With the mission to reach out to wider audiences, the CCP Performatura Festival 2023 will go beyond the complex and hold events online and offsite in various venues. The Flips Flippin’ Pages Book Club, in partnership with Milflores Publishing, will hold an online book discussion on The Reddest Rose Unfolds, a comic book by Swedish […]

“KALBARYO NG MGA IPS DAHIL KAY NCIP CHAIRMAN CAPUYAN, COMMISSIONER CAYAT”

Napaaga ang Biyernes Santo ni National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Chairman Allen Capuyan at NCIP-Region 1/CAR Commissioner Gaspar Cayat. Isinasakdal si Capuyan at Cayat sa Office of the Ombudsman dahil sa umano’y hindi tuwirang paggawad ng permiso sa operasyon ng planta at expansion ng National Cement Corporation/ San Miguel Northern Cement Inc. (NCC/SMNCI) sa […]

ON THE ROPES

The whole of nation approach in the campaign to end the 54 year old communist insurgency in the country is slowly but surely gaining ground and momentum. The idea of the government to use the countryside strategy originally employed by the communist rebels to encircle the seat of power in Manila, albeit with some modifications, […]

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