Lessons in chaos
YESTERDAY Panay News reported that Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas was livid with anger over the chaos that ensued at the Iloilo Sports Complex when...
Throwing good money after bad
BUY NEW laptops to replace the overpriced but slow ones?
The Department of Education is floating several solutions after the publication of the Commission on...
Who is afraid of the ICC?
WHEN he was in power Rodrigo Duterte taunted the ICC (International Criminal Court) every chance that he could get.
For example, in late 2019 he...
De Lima’s special treatment
BEFORE she was elected senator in 2016 Leila de Lima was a celebrated lawyer who could have landed any job in the legal firmament.
She...
Marijuana in airports
MARIJUANA is a mixture of dried flowers of cannabis sativa. It is as natural as tobacco leaves.
Yet marijuana continues to be classified as an...
Point for mothers
CAN YOU file a petition in court to change your last name to your mother’s surname?
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Our practice has been to carry our fathers’ surnames...
Good news for ‘illegitimate’ children
AT THE outset, it must be stated that recent decisions of the Supreme Court have been using the phrase “nonmarital child” instead of “illegitimate...
A mother’s wrath
MAY A MOTHER charge her daughter’s boyfriend with criminal cases using as evidence photographs found in his Facebook messenger account?
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There is no age requirement...
Do we have a working criminal justice system?
WHY IS THERE a need for an international criminal court when we have our own system that brings criminals to justice?
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The prospect of a...
Police short-cuts in drug ops?
CAN THE police undertake a warrantless search for illegal drugs based only on the narration of a “confidential informant?”
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Policemen are reportedly required to effect...