‘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…

Chain of command

03/16/2015

The Palace had a field day blasting some holes on the Board of Inquiry (BOI) report that pointed out that President Benigno Aquino III broke the chain of command in relation to the tragedy that is the…

Compartmentalizing operations

02/02/2015

Long after the raw emotions evoked by the arrival honors given to the 44 fallen police commandos have passed, and the clamor for justice dimmed and buried by the government’s bureaucratic red tape, the question on who…

Firestorm in the middle of the peace process

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 01/29/2015

The nation is in mourning and while waiting for President Benigno S. Aquino III to deliver a message in connection with Sunday’s slaughter of some 44 members of the elite Special Action Force by elements of the…

Resignations and term extensions

10/06/2014

Any thoughts by President Benigno Aquino III to entertain a second term may have been quashed by a survey which showed that 60 percent of Filipinos oppose another six years of an Aquino administration. The Sept. 8-15…

Cardinal Vidal wants ‘change’ but denies calling for Aquino’s exit in Cebu assembly

Carine M. Asutilla 10/04/2014

What exactly did retired Cebu archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal say and do? The 83-year-old cardinal yesterday denied reports that he called for the resignation of President Benigno Aquino III during the Oct. 1 assembly of the National…

Palma confident in opposition against no elections, reiterates stance against pork barrel

08/29/2014

Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma is confident that the Filipino people will counter any plans by the Aquino administration to suspend the national elections in 2016. Palma, former president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP),…

The Binay Gambit

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/11/2014

Puerte na gyung bukal sa kaldero sa politika.  (The political pot is boiling) and pundits who have been glued in discussions related to the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), plunder cases against 3 politically powerful senators, their key…

P-Noy confirms approval of P12.2B rehab funds for Cebu, provinces hit by Yolanda

Peter L. Romanillos 07/28/2014

President Benigno Aquino III announced the approval of the rehabilitation plan for areas affected by supertyphoon Yolanda that includes Cebu, Iloilo, Eastern Samar and Leyte during his State of the Nation Address today. Aquino approved the implementation…

Raging storms of our time

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 07/21/2014

A day after President Benigno Aquino III attempted to weather a political storm faced by his administration due to the partially declared unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the strong Typhoon Rammasun devastated Albay, Quezon and Metro Manila.…

Something more to give

07/03/2014

Sen. Sergio “Serge” Osmeña III’s criticism of President Benigno Aquino III’s performance reflects the sentiments of many who look beyond the pork barrel corruption investigations and see how he and his lieutenants in the Palace allowed politics…

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…

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