‘President could have done more’

03/18/2015

OPENING STATEMENT Office of Sen. Grace Poe After five public hearings, five executive sessions, and 73 hours of full discussion attended by 37 resource persons, and more than 4,300 documents, the Committees were able to ferret out…

Conflict drivers

02/27/2015

  The botched January 25 Mamasapano police operation is holding hostage 17 years of negotiations to craft a political settlement to the armed conflict in Bangsamoro Mindanao. Aggravating the situation is the complicity of President Benigno Aquino…

Open lines for peace

02/06/2015

While we may have to accept that the March deadline for the passage of the BBL, its review by the bicameral committee and final signing into law by President Aquino may not be achieved, there are many…

A never-ending story called Mindanao

Jobers R. Bersales 01/29/2015

The recent massacre of police personnel in Maguindanao who never thought they would end up dead brings anew into sharper focus the problems besetting the search for peace and order in Mindanao. There is a good term…

Coast guard clears vessels for Bohol, Leyte, Mindanao

Melissa Q. Cabahug 12/31/2014

Ships bound for Bohol, Leyte and Mindanao were allowed to leave port at 2 p.m. yesterday after the Philippine Coast Guard got the signal from the weather bureau that these destinations were storm-free. Six vessels and 20…

Families still live in fear

Bencyrus Ellorin 11/24/2014

Cebu Daily News columnist Radel Paredes remembers Cynthia Oquendo-Ayon, one of the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, playing the piano in the dark halls of the University of San Carlos auditorium where  she was a political science…

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