Highest price quotation wins
BY ANTONIO CARPIO
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson Harry Roque stated last Sept. 2, 2021, that “among all the price quotes that we got, it (Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp.)...
PS-DBM ‘operates independently’
BY ANTONIO CARPIO
LAST Aug. 27, 2021, resigned DBM Secretary Wendel Avisado told the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee that the Procurement Service of the Department...
The Procurement Service of DBM
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
THE PROCUREMENT Service of the Department of Budget and Management or the PS-DBM has a dual function. First, the PS-DBM acts...
Above the law
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
UNDER our democratic and republican system of government as enshrined in the 1987 Constitution, Congress enacts, amends, or repeals a law,...
Archipelagic and normal baselines
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
THE PHILIPPINES has adopted two types of baselines from which its maritime zones — territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone,...
Spratlys vs KIG
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
THE PHILIPPINES’ territorial claim to the Spratlys is limited only to the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG), as formalized in Presidential Decree...
Nothing new in last SONA
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address (Sona) on July 26, 2021 broke no new ground on the most...
Our vanishing ‘galunggong’
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
TWO months ago, I had a Zoom meeting with fisherfolk from Zambales who complained that their fish catch had been dwindling...
Joint development vs cooperation arrangement
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
ON THE website of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one finds this definition of China’s concept of joint development: “The concept...
The importance of Itu Aba
BY ANTONIO T. CARPIO
ON DEC. 18, 2014, I met with then Solicitor General Florin Hilbay upon his request. Hilbay informed me that he would...