At the start of his administration, President Duterte said there were three million drug addicts in the Philippines which was the reason why he launched a brutal campaign against illegal drugs which has now claimed over 4,000 as of March 2017 per data from the Philippine National Police.
In the Philippines, where women have long proven their worth, they are still subjected to a lot of disrespect. And this is from no less than the President himself.
President Rodrigo Duterte is more than willing to personally argue his case before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Malacanang said, as the tribunal opens an initial probe to determine if there’s a need to investigate mass murder allegations filed against him.
When then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte dismissed as “garbage” the exposé of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV during last two weeks of the election campaign abouthis bank deposits with the Bank of Philippine Islands, Julia Vargas branch, he thought probably that was the end of it.
President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sara omitted to fully disclose their joint deposits and investments at the Bank of Philippine Islands, which conservatively exceeded P100 million in some years, when they were mayor and vice mayor of Davao City, our analysis of bank records submitted to Congress and their annual net worth declarations shows.
At the birthday party of House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez last Friday, President Duterte again justified his being uncouth with the flawed reasoning that he did not study to become a statesman.
President Duterte is simplifying the root cause of five-month war in Marawi by attributing it to drugs.
If there is any institution that was able to fully institutionalize the lessons of martial law and the People Power Revolt, it is the Philippine military. That lesson is that they should always be united. They should never allow themselves to be on opposite sides of the political fence. Better be on the wrong side than to be on opposite sides. Why?
President Duterte never ceases to stun us. Yesterday, he admitted that his story about the offshore accounts of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV was a product of his imagination.
Ang salitang bellwether ay "nagpapakita kung ano ang maaaring pangkalahatang hinaharap ng mga pagbabago o mga pangyayari."
