Firing Line

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:30:59 +0000

  NO one questions President Duterte for letting heads roll at the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) as details of corruption at its slimiest finally leaked out of Bilibid onto the Senate floor. It’s a disgrace to discover how corruption at the uniformed ranks has deprived common inmates of the right measure of food and healthcare, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:30:41 +0000

  IN response to President Duterte’s order to surrender within 15 days or be hunted as fugitives, many hei­nous crime convicts have chosen to give up the paradise that they have enjoyed briefly through the freedom granted them erroneously. Out of almost 2,000 convicts who gained freedom under the controver­sial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:30:56 +0000

  HEADS should roll in this latest brouhaha at the Bureau of Cor­rections (BuCor). A complete overhaul of the agency should even be con­sidered amid allegations that there were monetary considerations in the early release of prisoners convicted of heinous crimes. Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III disclosed that it was impos­sible to erase from […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:00:31 +0000

    PICTURE the excruciating pain a parent has to go through after learning of the brutal killing that her son or daughter had suffered in the hands of an abusive and dreaded government official. And after 26 years, can you imag­ine the horror and feeling of injus­tice that opening old wounds brings to the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:04:21 +0000

  TALKS between President Du­terte and Chinese leader Xi Jinping scheduled later this month in China may turn out to be their most sensitive dialogue. One reason here is Senate Minor­ity Leader Franklin Drilon’s desire for the President to raise the issue of the rising number of Chinese ships inside our country’s exclusive economic zone […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:00:20 +0000

  WHAT do you expect? Manila elect­ed a former trash collector as its mayor. Now, the young and vibrant Isko Moreno is ridding the city of its garbage, both literally and figuratively. As reported in both social and main­stream media, the indefatigable Isko, who seems to have the energy of a born reformer, has achieved […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:01:37 +0000

  NO matter what, the Philippines owns the West Philippine Sea (WPS), President Duterte insisted last Monday in front of senators, members of Congress, Cabinet secretaries, other government officials, and associates present at the Batasan Pambansa during his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA). “National honor and integrity will be foremost on our mind. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:05:04 +0000

  ADMINISTRATION officials have been bringing up the prospect of the country going into war with China with the Filipinos at the losing end of the struggle due to the enemy’s sheer power. I will not dispute this belief. However, is it any good for our people if we continue to talk about the threat […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:12:14 +0000

  DUE to China’s continued reclama­tion and unlawful fishing activities, our country loses a staggering cost of P33.1 billion yearly from the damaged reef ecosystems on Panatag (Scarbor­ough) Shoal and the Spratly Islands. More shocking was the statement that the figure was merely a conservative estimate, as revealed by Deo Florence Onda, a scientist from […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:32:36 +0000

  FOR a long time passing, sleep­ing it off at home “solved’’ the flood problem – anyway, the sun was scheduled to shine sooner or later. This passive attitude may have saved us all the headaches in the past by merely shutting both our eyes and then waking up when the river-streets run dry. However, […]