Lutz Barbo – the peacemaker was also published by The Manila Times on 1 December 2021 (Part 1) and on 8 December 2021 (Part 2). (Part 1) I was relatively young when I got some kind of baptism of fire as a local government errand boy. Then Eastern Samar Governor Lutgardo “Lutz” Barbo hosted one…
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Admin’s note: This is a repost from Commentary, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 9 November 2013 Among the lessons that students of politics and economics may want to learn from the recent 16-day shutdown in the United States (Sept. 30-Oct. 16) is how a bicameral congress, or how the separation of the branches of government, works. That…
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Like him or not, one thing I can say about Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte is his not being bound by convention. He allocates for himself freedom of thought. Except for those with deep and radical minds (recall Galileo who said Earth revolved around the sun when everybody else thought Sun circled the earth), or…
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Self-styled investigative journalist Manuel Mejorada complained that the Ilo-ilo Convention Center was overpriced. He also charged that Senate President Franklin Drilon, DPWH Secretary Rogelio Signson, DoT Secretary Ramon Jimenez, among others, should answer for the material injury they inflicted upon the people. But when the Philippine Senate, pushed by various sectors to probe one of…
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There are at least 1,500 criminals—members of holdup gangs, kidnappers, guns for hire, thieves, etc.—who roam freely among us in our communities. They are fully and legally armed. And they are dangerous. In fact, they are policemen! That’s what DILG Secretary Mar Roxas said, or supposed to have said. In a press briefing following the…
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