Archive for the '◙ The Daily Guardian' Category

Iloilo City, the next big thing – a roller coaster

SOON, one will no longer have to go to Star City in Pasay City to experience a ride on a roller coaster. With the eventual completion of the second flyover in Iloilo City on Gen. Luna/Jalandoni junction – a few linear meters away from the Infante flyover – a jalopy ride from one flyover to [...]

Graft-ridden projects

WITH the May 2010 elections just about two months away, it is not surprising to see in this country a lot of projects being implemented by the Administration in the name of its candidates.
Politicians think they know too well the weaknesses of the electorate. One of which is that the voters seem to have a [...]

It’s not ‘Villarroyo’ but ‘Marroyo’

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, [...]

Desperado?

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 [...]

Alternative law

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 [...]

So little justice

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 [...]

Bureaucrat capitalism

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 [...]

Powers of the Ombudsman

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 [...]

The SC on deception by government employees

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 [...]

Back to school

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 [...]

Pages (67): [1] 2 3 4 » ... Last »