PPCRV rejects Marcos’s plea to stop quick count

05/11/2016

THE Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) yesterday rejected vice presidential aspirant Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s call to stop its partial, unofficial tallying of votes. “The Filipino people have the right to know . .…

A personal history of Martial Law

Radel Paredes 05/07/2016

Crosshatching I was born in the year before Martial Law was declared so my childhood was spent in the shadow of the dictatorship. My father was a young sergeant in the Philippine Constabulary at that time. Marcos…

Recalling the dictatorship

Jobers R. Bersales 04/20/2016

I will address this column to the millennials, those who were never there when in our youth we grew under the dark clouds of the Marcos dictatorship. I understand perfectly why there is a creeping revision of…

The meteoric Duterte-Marcos rise

Jobers R. Bersales 03/23/2016

Just being here in Bantayan to launch a book about the town’s famous Holy Thursday and Good Friday processional tableaux, I can grasp fully the phenomenal rise of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte. Everywhere in this…

Martial law for millennials

Raymund Fernandez 03/05/2016

Kinutil He wonders: What would I do if my children should say to me: The years of martial law were the golden years of the Philippines? I would certainly feel quite a bit of pain. But I…

The failures of EDSA

Jobers R. Bersales 03/02/2016

We rail at why Bongbong Marcos is inching closer to the top slot for Vice-President as shown in the surveys. We find it revolting that the son of a dictator that our generation abhorred and resisted so…

Living the Edsa Revolution’s ideals

Ricky Poca 02/27/2016

Think Bits Last Thursday we celebrated the 30th anniversary of People Power or the Edsa Revolution, an event that many Marcos loyalists continue to claim to be a failure because it didn’t bring any of the prosperity…

Aquino: Marcos regime not ‘golden age’

02/26/2016

President Benigno Aquino III yesterday did not mince words as he recalled the horrors of martial law and criticized the late dictator’s son. Aquino, whose parents were symbols of resistance against the dictatorship of the late Ferdinand…

Santiago’s health

10/26/2015

  While there is much concern over Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago’s health, there is one other thing not a few Filipino voters are concerned about, and that is her choice of running mate, namely Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong”…

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