November 25, 2019
This is not about Senator and Pambansang Kamao Emmanuel Pacquiao but of another equally brilliant, visionary, unassuming, dedicated and the model for a public servant Manny from the South. The guy is former Agriculture Secretary and now incumbent chairperson of the Mindanao Development Authority (MDA) Manny Piñol, a journalist, writer, agriculturist and politician. His appoint […]
November 18, 2019
Someone must have talked some sense into Vice President Leni Robredo considering her apparent turn-around in declaring that while she has yet to clarify some issue pertaining to concrete data relative to the war on drugs she will allow the ‘operation tokhang’ begun by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies, to continue. Earlier and as […]
November 11, 2019
The Vice President Leni Robredo will finally get her chance to dip her finger, literally, in the quagmire of illegal drugs. After having been appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as the cochairman for the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), a post she will share with share with Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) chief Aaron […]
October 29, 2019
All eyes are on Malacanang these days with not a few keenly scrutinizing all public appearances by the President, all official statements coming out of the mouths of his allies and declarations made by his spokespersons whether the supposed official version made by Atty. Salvador Panelo or those narrated by newly minted Senator Bong Go […]
October 21, 2019
The plan to subject plebes to regular psychosocial assessment and interventions in order to determine their mental stability is a step in the right direction for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in its campaign to remove the stigma of hazing from the premier military educational institution in the country. It is also suggested that PMA […]
October 14, 2019
The City of Baguio is now home to more than three hundred thousand people at any given time living in an area of only 57.51 km2 (22.20 sq mi). With this dense population concentrated in packets all around the city you can be sure that peace and order is a top priority for the local […]
October 7, 2019
Notwithstanding the Senate Blue Ribbon inquiry on the existence of so called “ninja cops” who allegedly recycle confiscated and seized drugs resulting from illegal drug operations the Philippine National Police (PNP) should now conduct a deeper probe on policemen involved in this “agaw bato” schemes. The investigation should not only focus on the Pampanga buy […]
September 30, 2019
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has taken a step in the right direction in excising from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) its premier military school the stigma of being a hazing ground that has led to the deaths of several potential soldier-leaders supposed to defend their country. No less than the new corps […]
September 22, 2019
The latest controversy surrounding the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) comes at time when the public already seems convinced that hazing has already been tamed at the premier military institution in the country. The recent death of fourth-class cadet Darwin Dormitorio bring to light that however hazing has been regulated or at the extreme prohibited by […]
September 16, 2019
People have every right to be worried in the recent explosive disclosures about how high risk drug convicts continue to ply their illegal drug trade despite being incarcerated in a security hardened prison such as the Muntinlupa National Penitentiary. In a recent exposé bared during a senate inquiry regarding the application of a law that […]