A way to look into bank accounts?
A DETAINEE at Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City, has come out with a sworn statement claiming that he is a founding member of the...
Fugitives from justice
IN A DECISION rendered in late November, the Supreme Court En Banc, writing through Associate Justice Samuel Gaerlan, declared that accused persons who refuse...
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IN ITS unanimous decision penned by Justice Amy Lazaro, the Supreme Court summarized the PhilHealth brouhaha as follows:
On December 11, 2023, the BCC ...
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FLOOD control is the scandal that felled a Senate president.
In May 2024, Chiz Escudero replaced Migs Zubiri as Senate head, one year before the...
Is regime change an option at this time?
OVER THE weekend Sen. Panfilo Lacson revealed over the radio that he has been approached and coaxed to be part of a “civil-military junta.”
“Meron...
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FORMER congressman Zaldy Co of Ako Bicol party-list has accused President Bongbong Marcos Jr. of receiving P25 billion in kickbacks, supposedly from P100 billion...
What if the former Chief Justice is mistaken?
OMBUDSMAN Jesus Crispin Remulla has announced that Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is now the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International...
Trivializing the notarial process
SEN. Marcoleta: “Ito rin po ay pina notaryo ninyo. Totoo po ba ang notaryong ito?”
Orly Guteza: “Totoo po, your honor.”
That was the simple exchange...
The curious case of Villanueva’s PDAF
SENATOR Joel Villanueva was among the less prominent personalities involved in the Napoles pork barrel scandal near the end of the PNoy administration in...
Endless cycle of corruption
REGARDLESS of where you are in the Philippines people assess winnability at the polls through a candidate’s vaunted political machinery.
In turn, with very few...