Is the country ready for a divorce law?
ALBAY Representative Edcel Lagman reports that a technical working group at the House of Representatives has recommended the passage of a much-awaited divorce law.
This...
Needless deaths and the disconnect between hospitals and PhilHealth
CARLO Pana is a Christian missionary based in Cebu with his wife, Elma, and only child, Charael. Dedicated and selfless ministers of the Bible,...
Roping in the competition
ACCORDING to Sonny Trillanes, Sen. Bong Go’s father and half-brother were able to capture more than five billion pesos worth of government contracts in...
Bloody cameras
THERE WAS one thing that spelled the difference in the prosecution of the killers of Kian delos Santos. It is video footage of policemen...
Winning while losing
IN Pangilinan vs. Cayetano, the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions filed by minority senators and two other groups that sought to invalidate the withdrawal...
Being VP will not shield Duterte from cases
THE EXACT words of the President when he faced his breakaway PDP-Laban group last weekend were these:
“They keep on threatening me with lawsuits and...
Christmas bonanzas
IN THE TRIAL of Sen. Bong Revilla for plunder, the prosecution presented a summary of what its star witness called kickbacks, commissions or rebates...
Vice President Duterte?
ARTICLE VII, Section 4 of the Constitution provides simply and unequivocally: “The President shall not be eligible for any reelection.”
The framers of the 1987...
Strange defenses
IN A TELEVISED address to the nation last May 31, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he cannot allow the release of all the records...
Fatou’s special mention of Davao
THE JUDGES composing the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have required a unit within, called the Registry, to submit by August...