New Bilibid Prisons (MB file photo) Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Sunday, August 6 said he will ask authorities of the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) why they allowed persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) to accept food deliveries through online apps like GrabFood and...
THE LEGAL FRONT An assessment of a President’s performance after only a year in office can provide a good sense of his governance direction and the soundness of his initial steps. It is a directional gauge and a qualitative, not a quantitative, measure of the governance steps so far taken....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has urged government agencies to pursue projects like the Reformation Initiative for Sustainable Environment (RISE) that would address multiple humanitarian and economic problems. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of KJ Rosales/PPA...
THE LEGAL FRONT The June 30 papers carried as news President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s (PBBM) agreement with the statement of Dr. Aries Arugay of UP that “he should get a grade of ‘incomplete’ for his first year in office.” If this were a Court case, I would respectfully partially dissent to...
High-profile detainee Jose Adrian “Jad” Dera on Wednesday, July 5, admitted to senators that he was able to leave his detention cell at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) several times. Dera is facing charges of violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and has been...
The Senate justice and human rights committee has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to try to regain people’s trust and respect since it is the prime investigation agency of the country. The call was made by Senator Francis Tolentino when he presided his committee hearing on the...
BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The Philippine Army 303rd Infantry Brigade (IBde) vowed to seek justice for the death of four members of the Fausto family in Negros Occidental as it dismissed the claims of the Communist Party of the Philippines- New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) linking government troops to the...
THE LEGAL FRONT The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. This usage suggests a double-sided view of a crisis: the danger that every crisis carries, and the opportunity that the response to danger opens up. ...
“Good lawyers must know that there truly are heavenly proportions to the toil that we do on this side of life, and in so knowing are moved to submit to Him every outcome, even as we must presently apply ourselves to approximating, albeit faintly, what peace and justice on the other side of...
THE LEGAL FRONT After a lengthy Covid-imposed lay-off, Legal Front shall once again be part of this paper’s Friday issues. It may interest readers to know that I have compiled selected Legal Front articles into a book – Life at the Legal Front – published by Central Book Store where copies of...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has approved the extension of the subscriber identity module (SIM) card registration period after the April 26 deadline. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Yummie Dingding/PPA Pool) Shortly after Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin...
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, Speaker Martin Romualdez, and Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo experienced “significant changes” in their respective performance ratings between November 2022 and March 2023, based on the Pulse Asia survey results released on Wednesday, April 12. Zubiri and...
