Families of the Disappeared: United in pain and struggle
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Tag Archives: Marcos Jr. administration
‘Supermajority’ fails Marcos on priority bills
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 trouble with sloganeering
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.
The ‘best and brightest:’ Marcos Jr. version
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.
The killings have not stopped
Low-level peddlers, however, still make up the bulk of those killed in the drug war.
Families of victims see no justice under Marcos government, urge ICC to junk appeal to stop drug war probe
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.
ICC public counsel shoots down PH appeal to stop probe on Duterte’s drug war
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)
PH asks ICC permission to counter prosecution’s petition to resume drug war probe
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.”
Paglaban ng Palasyo sa disinformation
Step 1: Simulan sa sariling bakuran. Pakinggan ang komentaryo ni Christian Esguerra ngayong linggo.
Cleaning up the mess Vic Rodriguez left behind
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.
