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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The manning of PNP-Comelec checkpoints by neophyte members of the police-force is alarming. PNP officers with less-working brains don’t have the faintest idea that they are primarily tasked to check on the proliferation of illegal firearms, not drivers’ license.
But look, they are more interested now in the functions of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) rather [...]

Francisco, a government employee for 27 years was hospitalized due to Hypertension, Severe, Stage III and Coronary Artery Disease. As GSIS consider this a work-related condition, he was awarded a 30 days Temporary Disability Benefit plus reimbursement of all his medical expenses incurred during treatment.
But ten (10) months later he died of Cardiac arrest with [...]

PRUDENCE dictates we should evade dwelling on personal issues or private affairs of public officials. But if we ascertain their abuses in handling taxpayers’ money, it gives us the right to engage them in a war of attrition.
Journalists are gauged by quality of the enemies they have chosen. Freedom of the press belongs to those [...]

Every candidate running for public office believes in winning the election. But as the saying goes, a good player must not entrust his candidacy’s victory to other people’s pocket. This is where the role of sufficient logistics comes in, notwithstanding the importance of a well-organized machinery in a political battle.
But before we go to the [...]

Two years have past but the Trio Los Bobos of the Kingdom by the River still cannot make the expensive software they procured work. It remains uninstalled because it cannot be.
Kuyabog, ring leader of the triumvirate, hyped that the software worth 2.6 million was the top of the line in making real property tax collection [...]

The surprised visit of the Commission on Audit (COA) at the Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office (CTO), has created panic to all departments heads. What’s funny is that mere news of COA’s dropping to their offices has depicted them already badly beaten by their looks!
In fact, the day after the COA’s invasion of the CTO, some [...]