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Philcoman gives Management Man of the Year Award to Manila Mayor Moreno

THE Philippine Council of Management (Philcoman), one of the country’s oldest and prestigious nonprofit organizations, has officially chosen Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso as the Management Man of the Year awardee for 2019 to 2020. Philcoman’s board of judges picked Moreno based on the criteria set forth by the Philcoman Board of Trustees for outstanding achievements and […] → Read More

The Senate Blue Ribbon and Justice Committees should look into this

THE irrepressible Sen. Dick Gordon and other senators should look into why corruption and plunder are endlessly happening, not only in the police organization, but also in other government agencies. In the just concluded probe by the two powerful Senate Committees—Blue Ribbon and Justice—headed by Gordon, what we witnessed in the investigation of Police Gen. […] → Read More

Worsening peace and order situation

THE present worsening peace and order situation in the country has a historical antecedent from President Corazon C. Aquino’s regim → Read More

Cory Aquino herself spread fake news

WHILE the “yellows” and their inveterate followers are relentlessly bashing President Rodrigo R. Duterte “for spreading fake ne → Read More

Wrong policies that keep oil prices and power rates rising

Part FourIncrease in IPP contracts and liabilities FOR his part, President Fidel → Read More

A timely and weighty idea for today’s Labor Day

AFTER more than 40 years of neglect, the House has finally realized the need to strengthen and regulate the indiscriminate employment of foreign nationals in the country without the prior approval of the Secretary of Labor, among others. As a result, thousands of foreign nationals are working in hotels, mining firms, cigarette manufacturers and other companies to the prejudice of qualified… → Read More

Never forget

“NEVER forget,” writer-researcher Micel Coleen Buencamino said, “is an expression, a mantra, first used in relation to the Holocaust, and has now been reassigned to the 9/11 attacks. The biggest enemies and critics of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, especially some of the millennials, are also fond of using this political slogan now best written in a hashtag by the Internet generation.”… → Read More

My exclusive interview with then Libyan President Qaddafi

I wrote this column last December 26 while I was flying to San Francisco, California, exactly 41 years after that day when I sat down with Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi in his presidential tent at the outskirts of Tripoli and, thus, I earned the modest distinction of being the first Filipino and Asian journalist to have an exclusive interview with the then-reclusive and controversial leader… → Read More

Consumption is the bottleneck for sustainable development

HERE are some key conflicts or bottlenecks that could hamper achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) objectives for 2030: from ending poverty to improving well-being, gender equality, cities’ resilience or climate action. This is the result of a new comprehensive analysis by a team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). According to… → Read More

President Aquino mocked the country’s judicial system

THE popular biblical idiom (Hosea, 8:7), “Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind,” can be ascribed to the period between President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s constitutional regime and President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino’s revolutionary government and beyond that saw the contemptuous mockery of the country’s judicial system. In contrast to President Marcos’s constitutional democracy and adherence to the rule… → Read More

The oligarchs balk

Part One WHEN former President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law on September 21, 1972, the business community generally cheered. Martial law rid the streets of paralyzing mass-protest actions; it ended labor strikes in factories and in the public-transport industry; and it sent some misguided students either back to school or off to the mountains to join the communist guerrillas.… → Read More

Patronage and favoritism

LEST we forget, it was largely this intractable culture of patronage and favoritism that put Presidents Ferdinand E. Marcos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada in serious trouble and eventually lost their presidency in a mutiny. A conspiracy that included generals and Cabinet officials who claimed to be loyal to President Estrada but actually were Trojan horses of his political enemies, with… → Read More

The destructive body-count syndrome

THIS month last year, I warned police authorities in my column (BusinessMirror, October 30) on the negative effect of the frightful body-count syndrome in its bloody antidrug campaign. Obviously, they just ignored my warning. As a consequence, no less than the entire Duterte administration is now unfairly reaping the blame for the syndrome now clearly blotched with too much inaccurate and… → Read More

House to overhaul the obsolete penal code

THE House Committee on Justice chaired by Rep. Reynaldo V. Umali of the Second District of Oriental Mindoro has sought the immediate passage of House Bill (HB) 6204 meant to make the obsolete Revised Penal Code (RPC) responsive to the country’s worsening crime situation. “The present code was based on the Spanish Codigo Penal, which was enforced in the Philippines beginning in 1896. Today, so… → Read More

Corruption in the Ombudsman that led to a bloodbath

TALKING of corruption, here’s one for the books: On August 23, 2010, exactly 54 days before the Aquino Administration completed its second month in office, the sorry state of the country’s corruption and national security situations embarrassingly unfolded before the eyes of the world. For 10 hours on that fateful day, a man armed with an M16 automatic rifle and a .45 caliber pistol held hostage… → Read More

Decongesting NCR

THE House Committee on Housing and Urban Development has created a technical working group (TWG) meant to establish an Administrative Capital City Planning Commission that will study the feasibility of building in-city mass-housing projects for informal-settler families (ISFs) and of relocating the capital and seat of the government to decongest Metro Manila. In House Bill (HB) 83 filed by… → Read More

Tightening security for transport of drugs, chemicals

THE House Committee on Transportation has called on maritime transportation agencies to strengthen their capacity to detect and monitor the transport of illegal drugs, chemicals and paraphernalia for drug laboratories in light of the recent raids on the modern shabu factory/laboratory in Catanduanes province. Chaired by Rep. Cesar V. Sar-miento of the Lone District of Catanduanes, the committee… → Read More

The Reform the Armed Forces Movement

Part Four Martial-law declaration was in the air TWELVE other teams from Honasan’s and Kapunan’s groups under Maj. Arsenio Santos and Lt. Andy Gauran would launch diversionary operations nearby, blowing up gasoline tanks, buildings and hangars. One of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) officers involved in the planning was Lt. Col. Rey Rivera. In the evening of February 21, Rivera… → Read More

The Reform the Armed Forces Movement

Part Three Operation Twiggy NAVY Capt. Proceso Maligalig, Naval Operations assistant chief, was in his office at 4:30 that afternoon when he received a call from Lt. (jg) Alex Pama of the defense ministry. “Sir, our tennis game is postponed until tomorrow. Okay?” “Okay!” Maligalig said. “Postponed” was the key word—the signal to activate “Operation Twiggy,” the contingency plan for the… → Read More

The Reform the Armed Forces Movement

Part One Toward a unique martial tradition UNKNOWN to many people, the living founders and key members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM), the reformist group that led the historic 1986 People Power Revolution, quietly celebrated on July 23 their 35th anniversary with an appeal to President Duterte, himself a RAM and a GUARDIANS member, that he finally establishes a martial tradition… → Read More