Tonyo Cruz

Salute to winners of first IBP Human Rights Awards

In the run-up to International Human Rights Day, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) last week handed out the first-ever IBP Human Rights Awards to the country’s most outstanding human rights lawyers, namely, Edre U. Olalia for Luzon, Kristian Jacob A. Lora for Visayas, and Antonio C. Azarcon for Mindanao.

Thoughts on healthcare

There are only few families in the country who don’t fear getting sick. They are the richest and wealthiest ones – many of them possessing generational wealth, political power or both. Not a few own or partly-own hospitals and medical centers, or are connected with them by sheer political power.

Duterte-free Christmas or New Year?

Nobody could have imagined in 2022 the developments of the past few weeks and months of 2024.

Mary Jane, possibly our balikbayan of the year

Fandoms of traditional politicians are fighting among themselves for the glory of who should be credited for saving the life and working for the return of Mary Jane Veloso. It is a despicable exercise of trapo worship at the expense of Veloso, and an insult to overseas Filipinos and to victims of trafficking.

Duterte magic is gone

Former President Rodrigo Duterte and his former spokesperson Sal Panelo were supposed to throw a fit at the House of Representatives after the QuadComm initially moved the hearing. It would be a chance to malign the House and be the defiant hero of the day, right in the premises of the Batasang Pambansa.