HOTSPOT 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...
HOTSPOT 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...
HOTSPOT Nobody could have imagined in 2022 the developments of the past few weeks and months of 2024. The list is getting longer: the Duterte camp destroying its Uniteam alliance with the Marcos camp; Vice President Sara Duterte resigning from the Department of Education; former president...
CAMP ROMUALDO C. RUBI, Butuan City – Col. Emil J. Cruz has been named as the new 402nd Infantry (Stingers) Brigade commander. CRUZ (center) He assumed the position in a during a change of command ceremony here presided over by the chief of the 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division Major Gen. Jose Maria...
HOTSPOT 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...
HOTSPOT 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...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Two fishermen from Ilocos Sur found a pack of shabu worth P6.8 million floating on the West Philippine Sea in Barangay Dili, Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur on Sunday, Nov. 3. FLOATING shabu continues to be found every now and then in Ilocos Sur. (Ilocos Sur PPO) They turned over...
Papa Ric proudly pointing to his lovely home after fruit picking in his yard. It was close to midnight in Manila. I was restless and feeling uneasy in my bed and could not get a wink. Something was not quite right. Then came the news. Forest fires in the mountains of Xylokastro, a...
HOTSPOT Former president Duterte’s appearance this week before the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee could be the beginning of the end for this sad chapter in our history. Many were furious that Sen. Koko Pimentel, the hearing’s chairman, allowed the former president to speak freely, even...
HOTSPOT As I write this, a tropical storm continues to inundate huge parts of Luzon, with water volume and floods never before experienced in many areas. The impacted area is so huge, the impact so profound, and millions affected that it is quite certain that Kristine (international name: Trami)...
Carl Raymond R. Cruz, formerly chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director of an African telecommunications giant, will take over the reins of Ayala-led Globe Telecom Inc. beginning next year. In a statement on Wednesday, Oct. 23, Globe said Cruz will be nominated as its president and CEO...
HOTSPOT If anyone told us soon after the May 2022 elections that by October 2024, there would be marathon hearings in the House and Senate holding the Duterte administration accountable, nobody would have believed it. Neither would we believe any prediction then that Congress would take on Sara...
