FINDING ANSWERS With today’s start of the eight-day period for filing of certificate of candidacy in the 2025 elections, let me call on Filipinos who are God-fearing, competent, compassionate, and with the right strategy to uplift our country, to offer themselves and run for elective posts. May I...
FINDING ANSWERS Whether it’s less or more, evil is still evil. Unlike a choice between good and evil, being left with nothing else but an array of poisons can be quite challenging. But not making a choice might even make matters worse. The recent comment of Pope Francis that voters must choose...
FINDING ANSWERS Now that high-profile wanted persons like former mayor Alice Guo and Pastor Apollo Quiboloy are now in custody, law enforcement authorities may breathe a sigh of relief. Of course, there’s still unfinished business as the government has yet to gain custody of other high-profile...
FINDING ANSWERS Last week’s Kapihan sa Manila Hotel featured the highly accomplished former Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III, popularly known as Tito Sen, my close friend for almost four decades now, ever since he run and won as vice-mayor of Quezon City in the late ‘80s. At that time, he...
FINDING ANSWERS The conviction of three former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy for the 2019 hazing death of Darwin Dormitorio should serve as a deterrent to the crime of hazing that was the focus of RA 8049, the original anti-hazing law I authored in 1995, and amended by RA 11053 that...
FINDING ANSWERS Is a Marcos-Aquino coalition possible in the coming 2025 midterm elections? In the landscape of Philippine politics before the rise of the Dutertes, very few families have resonated as powerfully as the Marcoses and Aquinos. For decades, the two political families belonged to...
FINDING ANSWERS Right from the beginning of his State of the Nation Address, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. connected with the Filipino people with a very realistic statement. “Whatever current data proudly bannering our country as among the best-performing in Asia means nothing to a...
FINDING ANSWERS Intrigue marked the buildup to yesterday’s State of the Nation Address due to a remark of Vice President Sara Duterte that she won't attend the event because she’s the self-appointed “designated survivor.” Her remark, made after it was known she quit as DepEd chief,...
FINDING ANSWERS The Children’s First One Thousand Days Coalition (CFDC) has gotten significant support in its mission to tackle malnutrition during the critical period in a child’s life—from conception to age two. No less than First Lady Marie Louise “Liza” Araneta Marcos led the June 15...
FINDING ANSWERS At last week’s Kapihan sa Manila Prince Hotel news forum, discussion focused on divorce and it became clearer why the dissolution of the permanent bond of marriage must not be legalized in the Philippines. Retired Supreme Court Justice Adolfo Azcuna said that House Bill 9349,...
FINDING ANSWERS At the inaugural of the Kapihan sa Manila Prince Hotel we hosted last week with former Press Secretary Sonny Coloma, the topic focused on the issue of political dynasties that has dominated our political landscape in the past 37 years despite being banned by the 1987 Constitution....
FINDING ANSWERS Yesterday’s banner headline article in the Manila Bulletin, about President Marcos instructing the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) not to be provoked by China’s aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), contained something not to be taken lightly. It’s something quite...
