“Red-tagging” labels individuals or groups as members or sympathizers of the left-wing insurgency, exposing them to the risks of harassment, bodily harm and death from counterinsurgency entities and vigilantes operating with government collusion.According to a May 5, 2022 article posted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based non-profit organization exposing global violations of […]
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Help ICC probe of Duterte drug war, DFA told
THE DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs (DFA) should help the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its investigation of the Philippine government’s war on drugs, according to a congressman. “We don’t believe the judicial system is working fine,” Party-list Rep. Raoul Danniel A. Manuel told a congressional hearing on Wednesday, noting that families of drug war victims […]
Tell it to SunStar: Marcos Jr.’s refusal to rejoin ICC denies justice for drug war victims, promotes climate of impunity
The refusal of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to rejoin the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as former president Rodrigo Duterte’s adamant rejection of the ICC’s jurisdiction in relation to its investigation on the crimes against humanity committed in the brutal drug war by Duterte and cohorts, come as no surprise to […]
Tell it to SunStar: Was ‘kill them all’ figure of speech?
So the figure of speech “kill them all” spawned killings after killings? The drug war’s bloodiest murders of the poor are just an offshoot of a figure of speech?We challenge [former President Rodrigo] Duterte and his faithful follower-turned-apologist Bato (Sen. Ronald dela Rosa), to face the ICC and allow your narrative to be subjected to […]
Briones: Looming drug problem
From July 1, 2016 to June 26, 2022, or during the term of former president Rodrigo Duterte, close to 60,000 drug personalities were arrested and a little over P4 billion worth of shabu and nearly P300 million worth of marijuana were seized in more than 40,000 anti-narcotics operations.Looks impressive? Wait till you see the death […]
Editorial: Post-election consequences
If all 67 million Filipinos registered for the general elections headed to the voting centers and cast their votes Monday, May 9, it would mean over 61 percent of the 109,035,343 population (2020 census) chose to exercise their right to suffrage. That’s if all went to the polling precincts and endured the long lines. Filipinos’ […]
Wenceslao: Homestretch
Candidates are apparently starting to get tense now. We are on the homestretch. In the presidential election, Team Leni Robredo is hoping its bet is closing the distance in popularity surveys, but I say those surveys no longer matter. They have not reflected the strength of the Robredo campaign on the ground for so long. […]
Duterte endorses Rama-Garcia tandem
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has formally endorsed the candidacies of Mayor Mike Rama and Councilor Raymond Alvin Garcia as mayor and vice mayor of Cebu City for the May 9, 2022 elections.The President formally made his endorsement during the PDP-Laban Grand Rally and Joint Forum of the National and Regional Task Force to End Local Communist […]
Duterte: I won’t support any presidential bet
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated that he will not endorse any presidential candidate for the 2022 elections this May 9.Duterte made the statement during the Joint National and Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-RTF ELCAC) Central Visayas meeting with local and national officials on Thursday night, March 31, 2022 at the […]
Editorial: Who’ll monitor unvaxxed mayors, guvs?
Twelve days after President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he wants barangay captains to restrain the movement of people unvaccinated against Covid-19, the Department of the Interi…
President Duterte orders DILG to deploy cops to quarantine facilities nationwide
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte directed on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to assign policemen in quarantine hotels nationwide.The dire…
Duterte: Repeal post-calamity law
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has called on Congress and the next administration to exert efforts to repeal a law hindering the immediate declaration of a state of calamity.In his Talk…
PHL has enough calamity response laws — solons
EXISTING Philippine laws are sufficient for the implementation of quick response measures during disaster situations, solons asserted on Tuesday after President Rodrigo R. Duterte said “stupid laws passed by Congress” restricted him from immediately declaring a state of calamity. “That law should be changed. And it behooves upon this Congress, if they want to, or […]
Senatorial aspirant wants death penalty for corrupt officials
SENATORIAL aspirant and former Presidential Anti-Corruption Committee (PACC) chairman Greco Belgica proposed to impose the death penalty for those corrupt government officials if he wins and earns a seat in the senate. Belgica was in Cebu on Friday, November 26, 2021 to lead the inauguration of the campaign headquarters of Partido ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan […]
Philippine crime rate fell by 63% under Duterte, police say
THE CRIME rate in the Philippines fell by 63% to 170,168 under the government of President Rodrigo R. Duterte, police said on Wednesday. Police also solved 49% of murder, physical injury, rape, robbery and theft cases from July 2016 to June 2021, compared with 26% from July 2010 to June 2015 under the previous government, […]
Duterte says daughter to run for President in 2022
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte on Saturday said his daughter Sara would run for President next year. Sara Duterte-Carpio, who is mayor of their hometown Davao City, will run in tandem with Senator Christopher Lawrence T. Go, the President’s former aide, the tough-talking leader told a local broadcast journalist. “It […]
Kusug keeps alliance with PDP-Laban
LOCAL political party Kugi Uswag Sugbo (Kusug) will continue to uphold its alliance with the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), and it will cast its lot with the faction that is behind President Rodrigo Duterte’s candidacy for Vice President in the 2022 elections. This was confirmed Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, by Kusug president Raymond […]
Tabogon mayor faces new rap before Ombud
MAYOR Zigfred Duterte of Tabogon, Cebu is facing another complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas for alleged grave abuse of authority when he reportedly used one of his town’s heavy equipment for his quarrying business. This is the second time that Duterte has been sued before the anti-graft office in less than two months […]
Malilong: Will Bong Go dare run against Inday Sara?
IT used to be just Sen. Leila de Lima and a few others who dared stand up to President Duterte. With a presidential election approaching and Duterte’s term nearing its end, a few others are desperately trying to prove that they are not afraid of crossing the man they used to be palsy-walsy with. Let’s […]
Wenceslao: Gold medal
HOW would Malacañang deal with Hidilyn Diaz, the Air Force personnel who has given the country its first ever Olympic gold medal? In 2019, then presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo showed a piece of cartolina containing a diagram of the personalities said to be conspiring to oust President Duterte. Among the names were those of Diaz […]