The Philippine National Police (PNP) will not support any move to revive the peace talks with the communist rebels amid calls from some groups for the government and the rebel group to go back to the negotiating table after the series of attacks carried out in the past days that include a roadside...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) denounced Thursday, June 10, the Makabayan Bloc for exhorting the family of the slain football player Kiefer Absalon and a relative to lodge a complaint before the Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) which the group maintained “accepts...
The Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage will be at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros starting June 10 for a visit. Photo from Manila Cathedral FB The replica image of the Our Lady of Antipolo will arrive at the cathedral at 5 p.m. In a Facebook post, the Cathedral said the visit of the image is part...
President Duterte said the government's peace negotiations with the communist rebels were "dead on its tracks" as they asked too much from the government. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a televised address on May 5, 2021 (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement during his interview with...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Perhaps the confluence of time, circumstance, and geography brought this columnist into close contact with three of the most catastrophic wars in the world. The first was the Pacific War (1941 to 1945),which was ignited by the bombing of...
Anyone who wants to run for president next year should put achieving peace in the agenda, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV said on Wednesday, June 2. Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV (File photo/Manila Bulletin) Speaking at the 1Sambayan’s virtual Townhall event “Talakayang Bayan:...
Former Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio on Wednesday, June 2, expressed confidence that the Philippines can forge a peace agreement with communist rebels in Mindanao as long as it is forged within the framework of the Constitution. “A peace agreement with the communist rebels should...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) would welcome any investigation concerning the death of a National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace consultant during a police raid in Pavia, Iloilo, Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said Sunday, May 30. PNP Chief Eleazar said they are "open to any...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks delivered by former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., at the ICAPP 2nd Video Conference on the COVID-19 Pandemic on May 25, 2021.) A global program for post-COVID-19 world and future pandemics With the global plague having claimed more...
ANTIPOLO CITY -- As many devotees of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, also known as the Our Lady of Antipolo, could not fulfill their annual vow of visiting the shrine housing the 17th century brown- skinned image of the Virgin Mary because of the quarantine restrictions, church activities...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our wife Gina and we have been spending most of our time in our Dagupan City home by the Lingayen Gulf and the South China Sea since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in February last year. Before the global plague, we would fly to...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The United States and other world powers as well as the United Nations have called for “de-escalation” of deadly confrontation between the Israeli military and Palestinian forces in a bid to avoid a “full-scale war” between the two...
