Five days have passed since we held our automated election on May 13. But only six winners in the senatorial race have been proclaimed, while the counting of votes in many city, town and provinces are not yet over.
The New People’s Army (NPA) reminds us of the various guerrilla forces during World War II which controlled areas beyond the reach of the Japanese soldiers.
Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon should read between the lines: President Noy wants him to have an honorable exit by resigning.
Four officers and two enlisted men are detained at the Philippine Navy camp in Fort Bonifacio for a crime most of their Navy comrades believe they never committed.
After I read the report that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was preparing to file charges against Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and his men for the Sabah standoff, I laughed out loud till my belly ached.
The ultimatum given by the Malaysian authorities to the men of the Sultanate of Sulu who are holed up in a village in Sabah expired at midnight of Tuesday, Feb. 26.
There’s no way the Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Kiram, will heed President Noy’s appeal for him to order his men in Sabah to come home so the standoff could be resolved peacefully.
If Malaysia is clumsy about handling the Sabah standoff, it will have the same problem the Philippine government had when it fought a Muslim rebellion in the South in the 1970s up to the 1980s. Malaysia is in a no-win situation as a result of the standoff in Sabah. If it uses deadly force on [...]
I read with interest former Sen. Heherson Alvarez’s article in the Inquirer’s Commentary column on Saturday about climate change and steps the government is doing to address the problem.
THIS columnist was not surprised when the Senate recommended to the Ombudsman the investigation of former National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Lito Banayo for alleged graft while in office.
PO1 Jonathan Castro, a cop-turned- detainee had to be transferred to another jail after inmates whom he maltreated in the past ganged up on him inside their cell at the Pasay City jail.
I HOPE that the rumor going the rounds about Commissioner Elias Yusoph of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is not true. The rumor says that Yusoph, in charge of giving out exemptions to the gun ban, favors his relatives, friends, bodyguards of fellow Comelec commissioners and fellow Muslims.
Senators, who are supposed to be sedate politicians, made a spectacle of themselves washing their dirty linen in public. First, there was Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile vs Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
