APPARENTLY to demolish NP presidential candidate Manny Villar and boost the popularity of LP standard bearer Noynoy Aquino, LP “vice-presidentiable” Mar Roxas has renamed Villar “Villarroyo” for a reason: to implant in the public the perception that Villar, not Lakas-Kampi’s Gibo Teodoro, is the real bet of the unpopular outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Gibo, [...]

The reported grenade throwing incident in front of the residence of Mayor Jerry P. Trenas at around 2:30 in the morning, February 8, 2010, has surprised the great number of city residents. According to the mayor, it was a handiwork of his political rival – the Gonzalez clan.
Mayor Trenas claimed that his security guard, Carlo [...]

THIS April, the Supreme Court is expected to release the results of the 2009 Bar exams. The Bar is arguably the most awaited of all professional exams; in fact, the only one national broadsheets reserve front page space for.
Recent Philippine history seems to have reinforced this primus inter pares stature of lawyers among professionals. Speculations [...]

The strict implementation of the rule on decency imposed by public officials at the Provincial Capitol and at the Justice Ramon Avancena Hall of Justice against the poor only reinforced the widespread public belief that in this society, the laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.
Let’s take first that memorandum of provincial [...]

IN the last sixty decades, national democrats had been preaching that there are three basic problems that ail Philippine society. These are imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. According to the national democratic movement, the three isms are the culprits why Philippines remains backward and underdeveloped, that condemned the vast majority of Filipinos to poverty.
Imperialism, according [...]

In 1999, the Director of the National Library filed a complaint with the office of the office of the Ombudsman, against Lily, her Asst. Director at the same office, for violation of RA 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, as amended.
The case stemmed from the alleged misrepresentation and/or dishonesty committed by Lily when [...]

This administrative case originated from an anonymous letter questioning the status of Jenny (respondent), a government employee enrolled as a regular nursing student. The undisputed facts from the records are as follows:
Jenny was Clerk III in a Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC) of Davao City in August 2000. In June 2002, she took up [...]

WHEN I brought my daughter to school the other day, I saw a group of students campaigning not for national candidates but for themselves as the student council election at the West Visayas State University (WVSU) is scheduled sometime this week. I asked some of the candidates what’s the ideology that would define their governance [...]

WHEN McLuhan Fellow Inday Espina-Varona Friday last week asked who among the McLuhan Forum audience knew the guidelines on the automated elections on May 10, only 10 of the more than 200 warm bodies at the West Visayas State University venue replied in the affirmative, making Inday sigh “It’s scary!” Inday subsequently wrote about her [...]

SOME jeepney drivers’ associations in Metro Manila the other day made known their intention to strike if the Land Transportation Regulatory Board (LTFRB) refuses to grant their demand for a one-peso increase in minimum fare – from P7 to P8. As in the past, they point to the frequent rise in prices of oil as [...]