If there were any doubts that President Bongbong Marcos is his father's son, the viciousness in the hunt for Pastor Apollo Quiboloy removed all that.
Only a cold, ruthless mind could send Gen. Nicolas Torre III on that heartless mission to get Quiboloy at all costs –precisely what the latter is doing. Torre does not mind if he has been cast as the villain in this miserable witch-hunt, but there is a need to clear the air that he was merely sent there by someone higher.
I have no love lost for Apollo Quiboloy. I don't like him as an uber wealthy evangelist. I think he's arrogant, bordering on the insincere. His words sound preachy at best.
And the charges against him? Competent courts should determine his guilt or innocence, which is really more than I can say of all this brouhaha over his capture. Isn't this supposed to be a simple police procedural matter, to be enforced with minimal warm bodies sans the limelight?
By Dr. Lorraine Marie T. Badoy
There is a time to be silent. And a time to speak up.
When the very institutions and people mandated to protect us are the very same ones that bend and break our laws with shameless impunity and who have made it clear to us that our country is no longer a country ruled by laws but by the whims and caprices of powerful abusers, then the time to be silent is over.
Silence means we are complicit in these great crimes perpetrated on us as a nation.
It’s getting obvious.
Haven’t you noticed how some self-styled experts are raising hell over supposed errors in the book “Isang Kaibigan” written by Vice-President Inday Sara Duterte? They who have been consistently silent all this time on the revelations of the drug use of President Bongbong Marcos?
Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday said that while political separation is inevitable, respect and civility should always prevail.
“Ang hindi ko nagugustuhan ay iyong pambabastos. Pwede naman tayo maghiwalay sa pulitika, wag lang iyong maging bastos (What I don't like is profanity. We can separate from politics, just don't be rude)," Duterte added.
Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday the accusations of former customs intelligence officer Jimmy Gubanagainst her husband and brother were clearly "political harassment" and "political attacks."
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) criticized the National Economic and Development Authority’s (NEDA) outrageous claim that a Filipino can thrive on just ₱64 for three meals daily.
TUCP, in a statement Thursday, said the low poverty threshold is an insult to Filipino workers.
“How can anyone expect families to survive on such a meager amount? It said this assertion is not just absurd; it’s a slap in the face to those struggling to make ends meet.
The 2024 Paris Olympics saw the birth of Carlos Yulo as the greatest Filipino Olympian. His story is inspirational and worth writing in a book for our children to read in future generations.
But this Summer Games produced another remarkable tale: Bianca Pagdanganan's fightback on the final day of the women's golf competition.
No, Pagdanganan didn't win a medal. She narrowly missed a podium finish, but her performance against the best golfers in the world on the sport's biggest stage is an inspiring story to tell.
