Sen. Imee Marcos stood by the stance of his brother, President Marcos that the country's courts will not be rendered subordinate to the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid a renewed push to cooperate with it. Marcos said that this has been the answer of the President many times on the question...
OF TREES AND FOREST Our hearts go out to the people of Mindanao specifically those from Sarangani, Davao Occidental and General Santos City which appeared to have taken the brunt of the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit the region last Nov. 19. According to the National Disaster Risk...
FINDING ANSWERS It’s easy to grasp why motorists in a hurry but stuck in traffic were infuriated at the reason for an unauthorized use of the EDSA busway: “Out of courtesy that the convoy was in a hurry, we allowed it.” And it’s also easy to understand why Sen. Bong Revilla, earlier...
FINDING ANSWERS The suggestion of Sen. Francis Tolentino to recall the Philippine Ambassador to China as a way of expressing our country’s protest against China’s harassment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) deserves serious consideration. “This is us telling them that you’ve really gone...
PEACE-MAKER Timor Leste President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta arrived in Manila two days ago for a state visit. He met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Malacañang, where they discussed educational, technical, economic, and political cooperation between our two...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo reclaimed the top spot in the Tangere’s November senatorial survey for 2025 midterm elections. The big data research firm’s survey conducted from Nov. 2 to 4, 2023 found that 60 percent of Filipinos would vote...
OF TREES AND FOREST Last Oct. 30, 2023, my family and I trooped to the Las Piñas City National Science High School in Talon Dos to cast our votes for the Barangay and SK Elections. I was joined by my wife Cynthia and my children Mark, Paolo and Camille. The voting went smoothly and I would like to...
FINDING ANSWERS The slaughter of innocent children and other civilians had the world grieving for Israel as it coped with the shock of the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas terrorists. Widespread condemnation of the treacherous attack reverberated across the globe as people fully understood why...
PEACE-MAKER As of this writing, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was scheduled to speak at the joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate at the Batasan Pambansa. This paper’s editorial yesterday, Nov. 4, pointed out that the Japanese Premier’s address is...
OF TREES AND FOREST Filipinos have a tendency to adopt a tradition and make it their own by incorporating their own cultural twists. For instance, Undas—those two days that include Todos Los Santos or All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day or Araw ng Kaluluwa—was borne out of our deep Catholic...
FINDING ANSWERS Yesterday’s Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) to choose who among the 1.41 million candidates would serve in our 42,027 barangays finally pushed through, to the delight of many. After years of multiple postponements, the BSKE finally happened. The last time BSKE...
PEACE-MAKER (In our column last Sunday, we spoke of the need to create more avenues for dialogue, cooperation, and solidarity amid the protracted wars, lingering tensions, as well as the issues and challenges besetting the international community. One such avenue is through political parties. We...
