“What’s happening to our country?” This rhetorical question was whispered by former Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez to Police Gen. Tomas Karingal in 1982 while he was being wheeled to the hospital after being shot by assassins after attending mass at Mt. Carmel Church in Quezon City during the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship.… Read More »
It will happen. It has to happen. “We are morons not to let it happen,” Richard Schaefeer, president of the Golden Boy Promotions that promoted the last three fights of Floyd Mayweather Jr., was quoted as saying on the possibility of a fight between Mayweather and Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao. Indeed, it is… Read More »
I had expected Sen. Francis Escudero to withdraw his candidacy during a press conference he had scheduled last week at the Club Filipino in Greenhills. This was based on earlier reports that his patron at the Nationalist People’s Coalition, businessman Danding Cojuangco, had decided to patch up differences with his estranged cousin, Peping Cojuangco, to support… Read More »
While America was upholding the result of decades of battle for civil rights by electing an African American to the presidency, tens of thousands of Californians were institutionalizing inequality, injustice and bigotry by passing Proposition 8, which sought to ban gay marriages in California. They wanted to include in the state constitution a provision that would deprive a… Read More »
While America was upholding th= result of decades of battle for civil rights by electing an African American to the presidency, tens of thousands of Californians were institutionalizing inequality, injustice and bigotry by passing Proposition 8, which sought to ban gay marriages in California. They wanted to include in the state constitution a provision that would deprive a… Read More »
More than a year after the Supreme Court slapped a temporary restraining order on the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the MILF has now been reported as having sought the assistance of the United States to mediate in a peace… Read More »
The recent flash floods in Luzon brought about by Typhoon Ondoy brought back memories of the July-August Floods of 1972, less than two months before martial law was declared by President Marcos. I was a recently hired reporter for the Philippines Daily Express and was at the same time a senior student at the University of… Read More »
One of their fathers could have been president if martial law had not cancelled the 1973 presidential elections. And now 37 years later, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, son of the late Sen. Gerardo “Gerry” Roxas, and Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, son of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino III, are in the forefront of the race for… Read More »
With just nine months to go before the May 2010 Philippine presidential elections, the positioning among presidential candidates and political parties has already reached pitch fever proportions. And unlike at the onset of the year when there were more than a dozen presidential hopefuls, we can now cut the number down to just seven or eight, and perhaps… Read More »
It seems it is all-systems go for the automation of elections in the Philippines. For a while, it seemed the Commission on Elections would have to revert to the decades-old manual voting system when the Philippine partner in the joint venture that won the poll automation bidding said it was withdrawing from the venture because of some internal… Read More »