MANILA The seasonal madness that engulfs the Philippines is upon us again, its election time once more. Unfortunately, the list of candidates isn’t inspiring. Actually it’s depressing. On the first week of October, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here opened its doors to would-be candidates, filing their certificates of candidacy for the positions of senators, congressmen, governors, mayors,… Read More »
Q. Hello Atty. Wong. I had consulted you before through your column Batas Pinoy Corner of which I’m so much satisfied with your answers. I would like again to have your views about our Inherited properties as follows : 1. Our parents are both now in their second life and they left us a parcel of land with… Read More »
HELLO, TORONTO! First, Comm. Kim Henares of the Bureau of Internal Revenue expressed her feelings of betrayal over a favoured Senate version by Sen. Ralph Recto of the Sin Tax Bill. If approved, the Recto version would greatly reduce the projected government income through sin tax from 60 to 15 billion pesos (Php 60billion down to Php 15billion).… Read More »
It was September 40 years ago when President Marcos cracked down on one of the freest press in the world with the declaration of martial law through Proclamation 1081. For 14 years since, we journalists at that time had to live through censorship in the first few years when military censors actually watched over the newsroom, and self-censorship… Read More »
Sa lahat yata ng iba’t ibang kultura sa mundo hindi maiiwasan meron itong mga bahaging salungat o puedeng ituring naghahatakan o nagbabakbakan. Dahil seguro dala ng panahon, ng hindi maiiwasang pagbabago habang lumilipas ang mga buwan at taon. Ang tao at kapaligiran ay binabago ng panahon. Sa ganitong pagbabago ang kultura lang ang pangmatagalan, hindi nababaklas kundi nadagdagan… Read More »
Philippine press was once one of the freeest – if not the freeest – press in the world. Not anymore. Today, freedom of the press, as we once knew it, is a relic of the past. Members of the Fourth Estate would defend their freedom like they would defend their own lives. Indeed, 72 journalists have been killed… Read More »
Incitatus was a horse. Not an ordinary horse. Aside that he belonged to Caligula, or Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the Emperor of Rome from 37 AD to 41 AD, he also was appointed to the Roman senate. Caligula known for his eccentricities treated his horse in many extraordinary ways. It was said that the horse’s stable was… Read More »
The recent controversies involving Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and former DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno exposed two obvious weaknesses in the administration of President Aquino – the apparent lack of trust in his senior Cabinet officials and the lack of consistent and coherent direction in government policies. The lack of trust first became evident when Aquino said that Puno… Read More »
There comes a time in a mind’s winter years when the need to be assured of its vigor must be faced with gallantry instead of trepidation. If only to bolster confidence that Mr. Alzheimer is yet far albeit lurking in the distant horizon. A way to do that is by recalling decades before events and people in one’s… Read More »