THE Court of Appeals’ Fifth Division, in a decision penned by Justice Jose Reyes, has ruled against junking the legalistic move of the Rufino family, the controlling stockholders of the…

THE online-only news site Rappler, funded by Americans and controlled by a mining and property tycoon, has done it again, this time claiming that President Duterte’s “costly” foreign trips reflect…

DUTERTE MUST CONVENE THE NSC I AM convinced so, for the following reasons, and it is a conclusion that has vast implications for long-term peace in Mindanao and for the…

But his unaccountable oversight empowers Duterte to reclaim BuCor lands TAGUM Development Corp. (Tadeco) which since 1969 has used for its banana production 5,343 hectares of public lands under the…

(Continued from Friday) BECAUSE the Moro groups linked to the Iraq and Syria-based Islamic State (IS) pose a very serious danger to our Republic, I quoted at length in my…

THE death from asphyxiation of 37 people, triggered by the attack by a lone gunman at the Resorts World Manila Friday, is our worst fire tragedy since 1996 when a…

ONE major reason why the Iraq and Syria-based “holy war” (jihad) movement called the “Islamic State” has become a real and present danger to the Philippines is that it has,…

TO see why the Mindanao terrorists linked to the Islamic State could turn into the biggest threat to the Republic ever, we’d have to look at how it had become…

PRESIDENT Duterte’s declaration of martial law in Mindanao is certainly a very risky political move, that the Yellows are probably celebrating it. It would bolster the false narrative they have…