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For as long as the government continues to build or tolerate contractors building sub-standard public infrastructures, much of the money from our taxes will be going to repairs and reconstruction of disaster-damaged structures.

The House quad committee (quadcom), which has uncovered gruesome information in its investigation of EJKs, is now into tracing the money trail that financed former president Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.It would be helpful for the quadcom to retrieve the interviews given by self-confessed Duterte Death Squad leader Arturo Lascañas and member Edgar Matobato.

She fits well in a fantasy world where one seeks distraction and relief from unpleasant realities by engaging in fantasy, daydreaming, or immersing herself in fictional worlds, where one can see only what she wants to see and is in full control of her situation.

Nolasco Mempin retired January 28, 2023 as a major general in the Philippine Army. His last two assignments were interesting.

Lawmakers are not convinced that Garma has been telling all she knows about Duterte's drug war. The plot in the drug war drama is getting more interesting as the congressional probe moves closer to the exciting part.

Hitman: Bong Go is the bagman who gives the money to finance when there is a killing operation. If not to the other group of hit men, then to us. But he also has a personal group of hit men, like Titing, he has his own personal hit men.

Tribute of former mayor of Tangub City Philip Tan to the late president Benigno Aquino III for Panguil Bay Bridge: To the man that we had worked with for a short period but whose legacy will forever be remembered: Daghang Salamat sa imong kaayo para sa Misamisnon

Those who reject being tagged as "bobotante" or "bayaran" should show the candidates they're not stupid or paid voters who value popularity and entertainment more than integrity and leadership quality.

The president’s sense of shame should be deeper because his parents, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Marcos were the originators of sexual tourism in the country.

Who would have thought that somebody who once led the Davao City police's anti-vice unit as well as its women and children's protection desk and served as an officer for the PNP-CIDG would now be embroiled in multiple murder cases, corruption and many other illicit activities?

Arturo Lascañas: Bong Go developed a very useful strategy for the killings. He was the first to use the personal information data of the targets that he had secured through an arrangement with the Land Transportation Office.

No one disappears in the normal scheme of things in this world. Life’s cycle consists of birth, childhood, adulthood, old age, death. Some get to complete all the stages; others are not so lucky and skip some stages between birth and death. But nowhere is there a stage when one simply disappears, unless something drastic happens to disrupt that cycle, as in the case of James and Felix.

While the House is justified in scrutinizing the OVP budget, it should have exercised the same fine-tooth comb in approving the OP budget, including its P4.56 billion confidential and intelligence funds.

Arturo Lascañas, in an affidavit submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Royina Garma was so deeply into the Davao Death Squad killings even before Duterte became president.

Too many harrowing criminal operations and unlawful actions that happened under the Duterte administration have been coming out; direct witnesses have been speaking out in the congressional investigations.

Duterte’s real dilemma lies in the bankruptcy of his political strategy that he and and his chief political strategist and ideologue, Leoncio B. Evasco, Jr. thought they could reprise from his 2016 run.

Has Dela Rosa forgotten about his role as chief implementor of Duterte’s bloody drug war that resulted in more than 12, 000 deaths?

Mario C. Duaves, the presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 15 of Davao City, was the judge who issued the Temporary Protection Order (TPO) in favor of fugitive preacher Apollo Quiboloy’s Kingdom of Jesus Christ August 27.On Sept. 3, the Court of Appeals (CA) nullified the temporary protection order issued by Duaves. Who is Judge Duaves?