Happy New Year!
Let truth be everybody’s business this 2024. VERA Files wishes you a Happy New Year!
Let truth be everybody’s business this 2024. VERA Files wishes you a Happy New Year!
As 2024 approaches, may we approach the New Year by keeping out lies and celebrating the truth!
Unwrap truth, and let it shine through. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
From 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. today, May 9, nearly 66 million Filipino voters will decide where the country is headed, at least in the next six years under a new administration. They will be electing candidates for a total of 18, 180 positions across the archipelago, including the successor to President Rodrigo Duterte. (READ: The […]
By CHARMAINE C. DEOGRACIAS and ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS (Conclusion) WHEN the government bidded out the P2.8 billion events management contract for the 50th anniversary of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations to be held in the Philippines this year, it tailor-made the criteria so that a favored company would bag the deal, […]
By CHARMAINE C. DEOGRACIAS and ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS First of two parts THE Department of Budget and Management-Procurement Service (DBM-PS) has allegedly violated the government procurement law when it bidded out the gargantuan P2.8 billion events management contract for the hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conferences this year, a company […]
Text by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AND AVIGAIL OLARTE Video by LUCILLE SODIPE CLAD in white shirts and red bandanas bearing the famous peace sign, loyalists of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos clutched the shut gates of the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 18, the day of the burial. They wanted to be let in […]
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he won’t take his word back on allowing the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Amid protests and calls for him to reconsider, the president said the sins of Marcos have yet to be proven. He made the statement as he left for his […]
By JINKY CABILDO and MATTHEW REYSIO-CRUZ (Last of two parts) PETER repeated Grade 5 thrice at a public elementary school in Quezon City before dropping out in 2013. He was then 13 and already a heavy drinker and smoker. (The names of the children have been changed to protect their identity.—Ed.) After he dropped out […]
By JINKY CABILDO and MATTHEW REYSIO-CRUZ (First of two parts) FIVE grams of “shabu” in his hands and nowhere to run. It was 17-year-old Daniel’s second brush with the law when two police officers and three city watchmen arrested him in Taguig City one early morning in October last year. (The names of the children […]