313
And then out of pique, Vice President Sara Duterte told PNP Chief Rommel Marbil that she was returning to the PNP the 45 police escorts he had provided the OVP with. 358 – 45 = 313 security escorts.
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Where is Hong Jiang Yang?
From the current Senate hearings of Sen. Risa Hontiveros on the alleged POGO crimes and Guo Hua Ping, that Michael Yang’s brother, identified as Hong Jiang Yang, has navigated himself around the other POGOs in the country, such as the one in Bamban, Tarlac.
Guo Hua Ping is not a racism issue
There are those who caricature the Alice Guo issue as an exercise in racial discrimination against nationals of the People’s Republic of China. The exaggeration is so detached from ground reality.
The importance of being an Angara
Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.
When Sara militarized the DepEd
No past secretary of education had ever done it. Simply, it is not done. Militarism in the education bureaucracy is not within its mandate.
Letter from Lulu Saguisag Santos
Following the publication of our obituary article on the death of the great freedom fighter and statesman Rene Saguisag (“Why Rene Saguisag was only a 1-term senator,” April 26, 2024), we received a letter from the late senator’s only sister Lulu Saguisag Santos.
Davao Boys in Manila was a kill strategy
The most infamous of course was Station 6 in Batasan, Quezon City. Thanks to the Reuters report of 2017, the name Davao Boys became synonymous with the killing orgies done by police at the height of Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs.
The 2022 elections for mayor in Bamban, Tarlac
The factors that led to Alice Guo’s mayoralty victory in 2022 are definitely outside what you see in her Statement of Contributions and Expenses.
Conversations with Arturo Lascañas Part 4: ‘Inday wanted to make her own trademark in the death squad, and that was Oplan Tokhang’
“Sara advised abduction and burial at Laud Quarry” - Arturo Lascañas
Conversations with Arturo Lascañas Part 3: ‘Polong was the mastermind in the smuggling of shabu in the Port of Davao’
“Polong was the mastermind in the smuggling of shabu in the Port of Davao, and I was one of his conduits or front men ” - Arturo Lascañas
