Some 8509 miles from across the globe, New York Times counseled President Benigno Simeon Aquino to step down from power after 2016 because the fragile democracy in the country is in peril if he amends the constitution to run again and to clip the powers of the Supreme Court. This unsolicited advice betrays a certain…
As Bongbong Marcos gears for the 2016 presidential elections, social media networking sites are littered with pro-Marcos sentiments on how prosperous the country was during the era of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. These misguided were not aware that the country at the time Marcos fled to Hawaii, was heavily in debt of US$25 Billion. The…
Forty one years ago today, September 23, democracy stopped in the country – Marcos declared martial law – he threw the dissenters against his regime in jail, padlocked the press and congress and ruled the country by decrees. Martial law proclamation however, was dated September 21; Marcos, a numerologist believes his destiny and action must…
Heaven weeps uncontrollably over the unabated corruption in Metro Manila that its tears flooded in “biblical proportions” its major thoroughfares. In my own sense of irony I viewed with endless trepidation the sight of my 24 year old daughter coming home early morning from a midnight shift of 12 or sometimes 16 hours to make honest money…
If there is something the Aquino administration should be proud about, it is the treatment of the marginalized sectors of our society, which Bianca Gonzalez characterized as ‘soft-glove’ treatment of non-performing citizenry, the squatters. And also in the light of a recent attempt to demolish the squatters along West Kamias, Q.C. which Mayor Herbert Bautista…
I was in grade school at the Naga Elementary School for two years, took my secondary school at Camarines Sur National High School, college courses at Ateneo de Naga for one semester and three semesters at University of Nueva Caceres and finally finished my bachelor’s degree in Naga College in 1974. While in college I write for the Bicol Mail, one…
There are people who believed that on the tragic day of August 21, 1983, Marcos was bedridden with failing kidneys because of lupus (or due to stressful life, not lupus according to JPE’s Memoirs) and therefore he could not have ordered the ‘murder’ of the popular oppositionist former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. But Marcos was not always hobbled in…
Planned Parenthood Inc., (PPI) in the U.S. A. gestated under the very concept outlined in the Reproductive Health Bill (RHB): to address maternal health, poor sexual education among Filipinos and uncontrolled childbirth. PPI is now the number one abortion provider in the U.S. RHB is a ‘Trojan’ horse that will morph into a full-pledge PPI once approved in…
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Recurring political images in the Philipines: ROLSON RODRIGUEZ, a barangay chairman of Sto. Domingo, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental was found guilty of dishonesty and oppression. He was dismissed from the service and stripped with all his retirement benefits and civil service eligibilities. DELSA M. FLORES, court interpreter of a regional trial court of Davao received from the municipality of Panabo the…
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