That police mishandling of the Rizal Park hostage taking bloodbath snafu will never be lived down by the Philippine National Police. The PNP Director General is absolutely wrong to declare that he is now restoring command responsibility to stem that string of incidents that saw rogue cops being involved in acts of kidnapping with homicide. [...]

So it is now the time to bite the bullet until and unless some kind of anesthetic is found for the string of higher scots for our expressways and public transport modes. The Aquino administration surely knows these higher rates exact a political cost. It can, of course, be argued by P-Noy’s communications team that [...]

Most Filipinos of today’s i-generation probably do not really know who Jose Protacio Rizal is. Oh sure, he’s that spiffily-dressed pogi in funy looking hat with a book in his right hand whose monument dots our town plazas and has his face on our 1-Peso coins. But it behooves us to take a hard look at Lolo [...]

There’s a disconnect in the Philippine National Police widely grinning that the number of “reported crimes has gone down by 40%.” Make no mistake, dear sirs. The stat does not mean our crime-ridden streets are safer or that Filipinos no longer dread walking our avenues, nor arevthey, for that matter, secure in the safety of their homes. [...]

Last I heard, free speech is held inviolable by the Constitution. So how is it that our anti-graft court – the Sandiganbayan (the vernacular noun translates to ‘the country’s bulwark’) can issue a gag order on the public??? What does the court want us to know? Former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo now reveals that court insiders told him a [...]

Okay, I won’t ask if we are morons. Let’s ‘plead’ to a lesser ‘offence’ … that of being clueless, uttlery cluelss about what’s now being peddled as the deeper reason for alleged plunderer – disgraced ex-AFP comptroller Carlos Garcia. They are saying Garcia will help finger other corrupt guys in the military. Under the law [...]

Why did our government become, as it has acknowledged, an unwitting (hopefully not witless) participant in the’boycott’ of the Nobel Peace Prize award rites for Chinese political activist Liu Xiabo? Sure, Communications (for strategic planning) Ricky Carandang rejected suggestions PH had succumbed to pressures from Beijing. In lockstep our foreign office lamely said there was “a trip scheduling mismatch because [...]

To say that the Philippines’ professional, highly educated nursing sec to is in crisis is perhaps one of the gross understatements about our country’s labor situation: Unemployment among Filipino nurses remains massive with the number reaching up to about 400,000. 2008 statistics from the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), particularly reveal further that from [...]

This is sad. Senator Panfilo Lacson using Facebook as his platform to assert his innocence. Just how many standards of  justice are there, my dear Senator? Had you won in your own bid for the presidency, with your political war chest fed by your Filipino Chinese supporters, including those grateful for your exploits against kidnap-for-ransom groups from whose clutches [...]

The saber rattling on the troubled Korean peninsula has gone up a further notch with the American aircraft carrier USS George Washington due to spearhead the “pre-schedule” naval exercise with the South Korean Navy. This coincides with the assertion by Seoul that it will take yet unspecified “strong reaction” to retaliate against Pyongyang’s artillery barrage [...]