Photo courtesy: ICC The Senate resolution requesting the International Criminal Court to place former President Rodrigo Duterte under house arrest shows who among the the lawmakers understood what an uncompromising leadership is and who among them are politically rabied. The resolution, which came on the heels of disturbing news that the aging and ailing President…
Photo courtesy: Kitty Duterte facebook page People feasted on 100 roasted cows and a huge crocodile cake during the prayer rally at Rizal Park in Davao City. At the Freedom Park a group called Kunsensya Davao held their own event raging against the scandal of ghost and substandard flood control projects and the attendant magma…
As I write this piece, Speaker Martin Romualdez has resigned. On the eve of his departure, he had cleaned his office of everything including the door sign that declares: In the morning after, Romualdez delivered his swan song denying all allegations he is in the vortex of unprecedented corruption in the scandalous awards of tens…
Corruption, failed economy by sheer incompetence and toxic politics in the upper echelons of power are the main ingredients that had prompted the citizens of Indonesia, Nepal and France to come together in a massive protest and indignation against the current government leadership. What brought them to the streets are too familiar. The only difference…
The newly appointted DPWH Sec. Vince Dizon is facing a gargantuan task of thoroughly overhauling the graft and corruption – ridden department. It would be easier to simply excise the agency and transfer its functions including its budget to other departments or devolved to the local government units. But it is easier said than done….
Photo courtesy: PCO The unprecedented scandal of graft and corruption involving ghost and substandard flood control projects is full-blown. From a country gearing for war that has nothing to do with, the image of the Philippines is now plastered all over as the most corrupt in the world. Corruption is now systemic in the government…
Photo Courtesy: LGU Kapalong Not a few anti-Duterte bloggers cannot hide their contempt against the pro-Duterte supporters they resort to gutter lingo calling them DDShit. DDS is an acronym of the Davao Death Squad being attributed to Former President Rodrigo R. Duterte. Truth is DDS is part of a psychological warfare conceptualized by Col. Dionisio…
Photo courtesy: CIO The charge was simply preposterous and the court itself as well as the prosecutors could be held liable for injustice. True there were unfortunate victims who were caught in the crossfire during the raid but the law enforcers involved had been charged and convicted. Why? Because we have a functioning judicial system…
Photo courtesy: PCO BongBong Marcos is going around the globe seeking military alliance for a war he and his saber-rattling local and foreign advisers are concocting. His perceived enemy is of course China. This is rooted by Marcos wanting to pursue and reclaim the Scarborough Shoal using an arbitral ruling that the island belongs to…
In his state of the nation address, Monday, Pres. Ferdinand Marcos took a swipe at water utilities which he decried are wanting in delivering sufficient supply of water they are mandated to do. While he did not name the utility or utilities it is unmistakable that he is targeting Prime Water of Manny Villar which…
