I thank top election lawyer Romulo B. Macalintal for reminding me that the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. proclaimed April 30 of every year as Woman Suffrage Day through Presidential Decree No. 2346 dated March 29, 1984. HISTORICALLY, SINCE THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE WAS GRANTED IN 1907 by the American colonizers, only male citizens…
The Supreme Court has required the Senate and the House of Representatives to comment—within a non-extendible period of 10 days from notice—on the petition of 1Sambayan coalition to compel Congress to enact an anti-political dynasty law. It also consolidated the petition with the earlier ones filed by the Kapatiran party and by Wilfredo Trinidad. TO…
Former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his wife Imelda, et al., won Civil Case No. 0033 (later subdivided into eight complaints denominated as Civil Cases 0033-A, 0033-B, 0033-C, 0033-D, 0033-E, 0033-F, 0033-G, and 0033-H) involving the coconut levy funds and the companies in which the funds were invested at, including San Miguel Corp. (SMC), United…
After my column on “Rejuvenating Baguio” was published on Jan. 13, I received numerous pleas from the occupants of lots and condominium units and golf course proprietary members in Camp John Hay in Baguio, lamenting their ejection from the lots and condos and the dissolution of their playing rights at the golf course in the…
Comments long and short, wide and narrow, partisan and neutral on the indictment for the crime against humanity of mass murder, arrest in the Philippines, airlift via a chartered jet to, and detention in The Netherlands of former president Rodrigo R. Duterte had been essayed, broadcasted, debated, and gossiped ad nauseam. I think it is…
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