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The allies of President Rodrigo Duterte have not learned from previous failed attempts to tinker with the 1987 Constitution, making it easy to suspect them of ill motives for resurrecting the Cha-cha move.

Listening to President Duterte say that he is not interested in staying beyond June 30, 2022 reminds us of his denials about running for president in 2016.

The death of flight attendant Christine Dacera has opened a fresh can of worms on how the police can be extremely careless and irresponsible in handling criminal cases, particularly complicated ones.

So goes the prelude in the website Hacktibista, which keeps a running list of police and military brutalities. It is naïve to believe that these volatile policy declarations of Rodrigo Duterte have not reached the attention of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

President Rodrigo Duterte’s disclosure that “almost all” soldiers have been injected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine has placed military and Health officials in trouble. They’re now trying to mitigate the situation by coming up with alibis and excuses to make it appear that it was all right.