ABS-CBN closure shows Duterte, Calida, & Cayetano are a plague on Philippine democracy
JUST as fatal as Covid 19 is the anti-democratic conspiracy behind the shutdown of the ABS-CBN broadcast network. In times of crises like the...
Covid-19 — wages of Duterte’s treasonous pro-China policy
According to Saint Paul the Apostle, the wages of sin is death. And the wages of Rodrigo Duterte’s treasonous pro-China policy is the novel...
Why ABS-CBN should hire Calida as ‘telenovela’ writer
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Modern-day Herods
THE BELEN gives us an idealized image of the first Christmas that happened two millennia ago. We see a solemn portrayal of the Nativity...
A blatant farce
INTIMIDATION and fear have always been a familiar tool in dictatorial regimes. While others use them with subtlety and cunning, some despots prefer a...
Preserve campus free of Duterte despotism
HOW RIDICULOUS that President Duterte who wrings his iron fist at the slightest excuse, who has kowtowed to Communist China and committed the treason...
Laban para sa wika ay laban ng bayan
ISANG malaking insulto at kahihiyan ang naging desisyon ng Korte Suprema na katigan ang utos ng Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) na gawing opsiyonal...
Treason, betrayal on Independence Day
IT IS IRONICAL that the Department of National Defense announced the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by an aggressive Chinese vessel on Recto...
Our damaged culture, our vacuous democracy
THE RESULTS of the May elections show that while Filipinos have taken to democracy as a matter of practice, they hardly have grown in...
Conscience vote needed this May 13
TODAY’S election surveys are a foretaste of the possible turnout of the 2019 midterm elections: the halls of the upper chamber of Congress is...
APLICATIONS
Prisoners urged to exercise right to vote
NO AMOUNT of bars can hinder a person’s constitutional right to vote.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (CBCP-ECPPC) urged Filipino detainees in a meeting last Jan. 14 to affirm their right to suffrage enshrined in the Constitution.
CBCP-ECPPC Executive Director Rodolfo Diamante said the commission had been lobbying the government for detainee voting for years, as prisoners were not allowed to vote until the 2010 national elections. This led to the relaunching of the Inter-Agency Committee on Detainee Voting.
