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No room for jokes

Remember the promise of then-candidate Rodrigo Duterte that he would hop on a jet ski to assert the Philippines’ claim on the West Philippine...

Duterte says he ‘fulfilled all pledges’

President Rodrigo Duterte said he has fulfilled his campaign pledges to the people when he ran for the presidency in 2016, from attaining peace...

OFW dept. chief leads appointees

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) Abdullah Mama-o as secretary of the newly created Department of Migrant Workers...

Send them packing

Four months before his term expires, President Duterte says he has begun packing. We commend his readiness to leave office to make way for...

‘Bet must take up Rody legacy’

The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) said it will endorse the presidential candidate who would continue the legacy programs of President Rodrigo Duterte. The...

Duterte urges COVID jabs for parents, kids

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday renewed his call to parents and their kids to get their vaccinations against COVID-19. The country kicked off COVID-19 vaccination...

Go after peddlers of fake COVID drugs, says Rody

President Rodrigo Duterte said people selling counterfeit medicines online, including injectable drugs for treating COVID-19, should be properly prosecuted. Duterte added that there has to...

Does the end justify the means?

"The war on drugs should be conducted within the limits imposed by law." Do you still remember what President Duterte said about the drug problem...

No golden age of infrastructure

"At best, those claims need to be verified." Arguably the most extravagant of the many extravagant claims made by presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte in the...

Much-needed protection under the law

To almost universal acclaim, President Duterte signed a law in December 2021 making child marriages—a disturbingly common occurrence in the Philippines--a crime. The new law...

The environmental requirement of good governance

"Without national stability, there cannot be great progress" Judged by any standard, the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, now in its lame-duck stage, cannot be...

Rody appoints another judge to CA position

Malacañang has promoted another regional trial court (RTC) judge as associate justice of the Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the country. In...

Duterte appoints Ong as CA associate justice

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Michael Pastores Ong as an associate justice of the Court of Appeals. Vice Associate Justice Samuel...

The environmental requirement of good governance

"Without national stability, there cannot be great progress" Judged by any standard, the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, now in its lame-duck stage, cannot be...
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