Filipino Voices

The Supreme Court has just acquitted the primary suspects in the brutal Vizconde massacre case. Voting 7-4-4, the Supreme Court says that these suspects were not responsible for the crime which happened more than a decade and a half ago. So, now, the question looms—who really killed the Vizconde family members inside their house in [...]

It seems strange that no one is questioning  the BOR for voting Alfredo Pascual the next president of the University of the Philippines. 1)   Pascual has no substantial academic experience. His teaching stints are the equivalent teaching experience of an Assistant Professor. 2)   Pascual has virtually no university administrative experience, much less real [...]

The Luneta hostage-taking last August 23 was tragic, but it is more tragic that the Chinese use their dead to whip RP into their political line and distaste over detained dissident, Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize Awardee,who should have received his award yesterday in Norway.  I am reprinting portions of F. Sionil Jose’s, article, “Chinese  Mischief’ that [...]

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 [...]

Sad that the Supreme Court has now been described perogatively as a political court. Why? Because of its ruling in GR NO. 192935 or LOUIS “BAROK” C. BIRAOGO,Petitioner, versus THE PHILIPPINE TRUTH COMMISSION OF 2010. Let us look closely and see if really the SC erred in its decision. The 40 plus page ruling essentially discusses the power [...]

When the phenomenon of globalization impacted on outdated bureaucratic systems, the aspect of data control suddenly turned critical as information was not simply networked through global markets but also the expertise to wield data seemed limited to those with the appropriate technologies. For an economy deficit-driven, corrupted, crook-controlled and largely dependent on labor and brick [...]

I cannot properly situate myself over the decision of the SCORP, declaring EO No. 1 creating the Truth Commission by President Aquino, unconstitutional, much that I would like to take side on the issue. Creating the TC headed by  EX-CJ Chief Hilario Davide, Jr., and retired Justice Romeo Callejo Jr. to investigate GMA, is like [...]

The cry of the Philippine Medical Association must have fallen on deaf ears. No single soul seems to be listening. Consequently, scores of kidney patients waiting for kidneys from donors will have to wait. It has become a waiting game that involves life and death. What if no kidney can be made available? What if [...]