GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The discredited Health Secretary, asked if the country could also experience the unprecedented number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 being recorded in India, said that such a grim scenario could happen if the public fails to observe the...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The outpouring of kindness and generosity through the community pantries has been nothing short of phenomenal. As of last count, over 300 community pantries have been set up nationwide, all of them offering Filipinos displaced economically by...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The economy, according to a statement from the Trade Secretary, lost an estimated P180 billion during the two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the government in Metro Manila and four other provinces. On the other hand, those...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Last week, I was asked to speak before a webinar sponsored by the UP Portia Alumnae Association on my experiences as a human rights lawyer during martial law. As many of you know, I began my career as a lawyer in the 1960s, trading the comforts...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay On Good Friday came the shocking news from the Department of Health (DOH) that the number of active COVID-19 cases for the day totalled 15,310. Many experts had predicted this would happen sooner than later, but its announcement on Good Friday...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Over the weekend, the government placed Metro Manila and four adjacent provinces, what the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) refers to as NCR Plus, under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) status - a softer, benign term for a hard lockdown –...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay As I write this column, Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal have been placed under a “bubble” in an attempt to prevent a further surge in the number of viral infections caused by COVID-19. The Department of Health (DOH) has...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Looking back, it would be difficult not to feel a sense of frustration, even anger, at the many opportunities that were missed or ignored by government that could have made a difference today. No amount of feigned exuberance or managed events...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay It is difficult to accept even at face value the claim of the author of the amendments to the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act that the constitutional right of an accused to be presumed innocent until proven guilty remains intact and respected...
Former vice president Jejomar “Jojo” Binay said on Wednesday it is still premature to loosen the lockdown restrictions by next month. This after some government officials have called for the easing of lockdown restrictions following the vaccination of over 700 medical frontliners on Monday...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Seniors officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) appeared before media a day after the widely reported shootout between policemen and anti-drug agents to confess the obvious – they...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay Most observers have attributed the unprecedented rise in hunger and poverty to the administration’s monumental failure to respond quickly to the threat of COVID-19 and its reliance on strict lockdowns that grounded the economy for months....
