Congratulations to the people who made the staging of the 65th Miss Universe in the Philippines a rousing success. The publicity that the Philippines got from the pageant and the goodwill generated from the 86 beauties were a bonanza to Philippine tourism.
On the first day of his presidency, during the turnover of command ceremonies at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City, President Duterte boasted that he knows the scalawags in the police service.
“Just be quiet all of you.” Spoken like a despot ordering his minions what to do.
This time, it’s supposed to be the “truth.”
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SO it was not jet lag that was the reason why President Duterte was absent in the gala dinner heads of state attending the 2017 Leaders Meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Lima, Peru last Saturday as he earlier told reporters. It’s stomach upset. In his interview
By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS IF newly elected US President Donald Trump makes good his campaign threat to pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), he might also pull the plug on the its Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the Philippines. Trump has called the international security alliance “obsolete,” saying it
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TWO things came to our mind when we read about President Duterte’s threat of suspending the writ of habeas corpus if lawlessness in Mindanao worsens. Number one, his “Kill, Kill” strategy in eradicating the illegal drug problem is not solving the problem despite 4,000 killed. Number two, the public has been
By ALBERTO ENCOMIENDA FOREIGN policy has taken center stage at this early point in the Duterte administration. It should be no surprise inasmuch as since shortly before assuming the Presidency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has loudly made known that sea changes in foreign policy political/geopolitical direction of the country looms in the horizon, the basic premise of which is in regard to pursuing an
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS EVERY Undas or All Souls Day (Nov. 2) when Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember departed loved ones, I always think of the families of desaparecidos. Where do they go to offer flowers and light the candles for their dead whom they didn’t bury? I think of Edith Burgos,
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS DO you know that President Rodrigo Duterte is a Foreign Service graduate? That what he said in his press conference with the foreign correspondents in China last Oct. 19. He boasted: “Now that I am the President, by the grace of God, I read a lot; I’m a lawyer and I
