P-Noy should sign FOI

07/01/2014

President Benigno Aquino III marked his fourth year in office yesterday with a slate of promises old and new, of continuing efforts to clean house, and tons of reconstruction projects brought about by two major disasters, among…

Shark meat factory owner insists they didn’t violate local law

Norman V. Mendoza 06/30/2014

The owner of a shark meat processing factory located in sitio Suba Masulog in barangay Suba-basbas, Lapu-Lapu City said he didn’t violate any law by receiving imported gummy shark meat  from Australia. “We asked the Bureau of…

Mainstreaming environmental justice

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 06/02/2014

In a presentation made by Kaabag sa Sugbo coordinator Cathy Ruiz during the recently concluded Environmental Law Talks3 (ELT3) organized by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Rule of Law Program Asia and the University of Cebu (UC),…

Drug raid guidelines need change

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/21/2014

Cebu City’s Police Coordinating and Advisory Council will ask the Philippine National Police to review its policy on the conduct of illegal drug operations. Lawyers of drug suspects have been exploiting  stringent rules to get  cases acquitted…

Sotto: Life imprisonment does not work; restore death penalty

01/29/2014

MANILA, Philippines—In his bid to restore the death penalty, Senator Vicente Sotto III said that the life imprisonment meted to high-profile drug traffickers in the country “does not work.” In an interview with Inquirer Radio 990 AM,…

Sotto bill revives death penalty

01/28/2014

MANILA, Philippines—Alarmed  by the  influx of heinous crimes,  Senator  Vicente  “Tito” Sotto  III  has sought the revival of Republic Act 7659 or the Death Penalty Law in the country through lethal injection. In filing Senate Bill 2080…

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