VERA Files
A single human being represents the whole humanity; thus, August 30 represents humanity.- Argentinian Ma. Adela Antokoletz
Apart from the budget bill, 37 other measures on LEDAC’s priority agenda are still pending in various stages of the legislative process, and the president is expected to identify more in his SONA today.
The administration’s obsession with sloganeering does not bode well for the current situation when a vast majority of people have identified inflation, wages and jobs as their most urgent concerns.
Now that the one-year ban on appointing defeated candidates in the previous election is over, the president should still apply the “best and brightest” criteria more than personal loyalty and popularity, er, notoriety, in choosing people to serve in government.
Low-level peddlers, however, still make up the bulk of those killed in the drug war.
Families of the victims of the “drug war” are pushing for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to forge ahead with its investigation of the bloody campaign as they see no hope in getting justice even under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos.
The government has suffered another setback in its effort to stop the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on drug-related crimes during the Duterte administration as an office of public lawyers in the tribunal shot down all the arguments it presented. In an April 18 submission, the Office of Public Counsel for Victims (OPCV) […]
The government wants to refute the arguments made by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan last week in pressing to continue its investigation into alleged crimes against humanity under the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs.”
Step 1: Simulan sa sariling bakuran. Pakinggan ang komentaryo ni Christian Esguerra ngayong linggo.
Since his “complete exit” from the Marcos government in September 2022, it now appears that the former executive secretary had left behind such a mess in the administration. It would have been more disastrous had he been allowed to stay on in the Marcos Cabinet.