Kingdom of Bilibid
IT IS EASY to make stories up. What is difficult is supporting them with details that will make them verifiable and credible.
The extrajudicial confession...
When the dead tell no tales
CHIEF Gerald Bantag of the Bureau of Corrections got the axe after an alleged middleman in Percy Lapid’s killing died while serving sentence at...
Is government truly powerless to free De Lima?
FORMER Senator Leila de Lima’s bizarre detention while in jail has revived discussions on the justness of government’s cases against her.
To recall, it was...
Era of contract killing
THE MURDER of radio commentator Percy Lapid highlights the mundanity of contract killing in the Philippines.
Life may be taken at bargain basement prices –...
Criticizing judges
PUBLIC officials must not be onion-skinned. Criticism goes with the job. The salary of a government official or employee is sustained by the sweat...
Why Vhong’s rape case is back
WE ONCE handled a rape case that was frustrating at first. The client (Jimmy), the suspected rapist, was arrested by the police several hours...
Planting of evidence and other horrors
THE USUAL police version of a fatal buy-bust goes like this: a police operative pretends to be a user and contacts a pusher for...
Shielding our children from predators
LAST MONTH police operatives from Pasig arrested a man (one Mr. De Guzman) for having sexual relations with a fourteen-year-old girl whom he met...
A dead Constitution?
BY THE final year of the Duterte administration poverty incidence in the Philippines had risen to almost 24% of the population.
This means that more...
Central agency for bid fixing?
BEFORE the Duterte administration assumed power laymen like us did not know that an animal called PS-DBM (Department of Budget and Management Procurement Service)...