By Omar Fernando
DAVAO CITY – Deliberately missing the crucial budget hearing for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) at the House of Representatives last week, Vice President Sara “Inday” Duterte not only cited the technical reasons for her absence but also unleashed a contentious issue that the public must scrutinize.
By Omar Fernando
DAVAO CITY – Netizens who read an article published by the state-run Philippine News Agency (PNA) expressed disgust with the narrations made by Brig. Gen. Nicolas Torre III, director of the Police Regional Office-Davao (PRO-11), in a press briefing on Sept. 9.
The story, headlined “PNP: Quiboloy cornered, forced to surrender,” was posted on the PNA's Facebook page the same day.
As of 11:26 p.m. on Sept. 9, the article gained 373 reactions, 92 comments, and 11 shares.
By Lt. Gen. Filmore Escobal (Ret.)
The government is bleeding with taxpayers' money as the police operations to serve the warrant of arrest for Pastor Quiboloy et al. continue indefinitely.
The longer PNP PRO (Police Regional Office) 11 fails to achieve its mission, the more doubtful its objective becomes—whether to achieve peace and order and public safety objectives or otherwise. This implies that PRO 11 has become a private army of some political master or foreign power.
Has the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) pronounced a curse on Philippine Presidents whose administrations, inaugurated in its confines, ended prematurely?
According to Wikipedia, the neoclassical building was built in 1921 and was the home of the bicameral Congress from 1926 to 1972, hence its name as the Old Legislative Building.
There is one intriguing detail about the NMP that many Filipinos may find interesting: four Philippine Presidents took their oaths in it and the first three failed to finish their terms.
