Archive - Editor's Pick Year 2016 all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: DIGONGsyonaryo THE year 2016 gave the Philippines a new president, who brought with him to office his very own lexicon, one which we must use our “creative imagination” to fathom. By VERA Files | Dec 31, 2016 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Despite Marcos burial at LNMB, facts about his fake heroism remain It could have been the year a Marcos scion almost got elected the second highest official of the land. Instead, 2016 proved it had more in store for the family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr. By VERA Files | Dec 30, 2016 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Duterte’s curses and insults It's no longer shocking as it was months before when news of President Rodrigo Duterte taking a swipe at yet another world leader breaks out. By VERA Files | Dec 28, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Explaining the president: He says, they say For the Philippines, the second half of 2016 meant listening to President Rodrigo Duterte’s press conferences, often at midnight, and his curses and threats against world leaders, corrupt politicians, and drug lords. By VERA Files | Dec 23, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen? Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen? By VERA Files | Dec 17, 2016 | 4-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Bearing witness: Photogs tell the story of extrajudicial killings The glare of a drugstore sign floods the street, shining on the lifeless body of a man sprawled on the wet concrete, a crime scene cordoned off by the usual police tape and curious bystanders who have gathered to ogle the latest victim in the government’s war against drugs. By LUZ RIMBAN | Dec 7, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick A drug-tainted police officer has a protector in Malacanang? Update: Duterte admits ordering Marcos reinstatement http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/02/16/duterte-admits-ordering-marcos-reinstatement By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IF Police Supt. Marvin Marcos has long been identified as a protector of drug lords, why is somebody high up in Malacañang protecting him? What does this make of President Duterte’s bloody campaign to eliminate illegal drugs in the country which has claimed By verafiles | Dec 2, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick For a more responsible Facebooking By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WE are glad that Facebook has restored the account of journalist Inday Espina-Varona after it was erroneously blocked last Monday morning. What happened to Inday’s FB account shows how things have gotten out- of -control with Facebook, the social media phenomenon with over 1.79 billion users, almost a fourth of By verafiles | Nov 30, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Advice to Duterte: check on your hubris By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE statement of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales that the plunder and graft case filed by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV against then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is being investigated reassures those who are worried that the issue would be buried with the election of Duterte to the presidency. Many were afraid that By verafiles | Nov 28, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Millennials rise against Marcos and martial law By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS the deafening roar of thousands of anti-Marcos supporters reverberated around Luneta Friday night, two young people engaged in a friendly debate on the sidelines. “Are we discounting the truth in numbers that have been published so far?” asked Ochie*, a 20-year-old aeronautics student, whose family had been a victim of By verafiles | Nov 27, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick It’s stomach upset, not jet lag By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SO it was not jet lag that was the reason why President Duterte was absent in the gala dinner heads of state attending the 2017 Leaders Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Lima, Peru last Saturday as he earlier told reporters. It’s stomach upset. In his interview By verafiles | Nov 25, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick The public’s right to know about the President’s health BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PRESIDENT Duterte’s absence in two traditional events in the 2017 summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC once again raises the need for Malacañang to inform the public of the health of the 71-year old chief executive. We know it’s a sensitive subject for Duterte but the public’s concern By verafiles | Nov 23, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination 1 2 3 … 13 Older posts