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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:30:16 +0000

  KNOWN as the lawyer of and for lawyers, former justice secretary Estelito Mendoza said it all when he referred to the Good Conduct Time Allowance law as “good time allowance” over and over again. Invited to enlighten the Senate blue ribbon committee headed by Senator Richard Gor­don, a former student, Mr. Men­doza repeated and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:01:35 +0000

  dsa THE Chinese in China and overseas will take a few moments to gaze at the full moon tomorrow night, when the moon is at the year’s brightest during the Mid-Autumn Harvest Festival under the lunar calendar. Who but a farmer such as Henry Lim Bon Liong, who was recently short of being knighted […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:30:57 +0000

  AS a 73-year-old republic of young citizens whose futures are yet to fully unfold, it’s alarm­ing and saddening that suicides are prevalent among the youth, teenage pregnancies are spik­ing into a national emergency, children and babies are being abused, molested, raped, killed, usually by older male relatives. If youth is the time of spring, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:00:37 +0000

  “PASKO na!” It’s here, if you drive along Roxas Blvd. and observe those lovely trees lavishly deco­rated with clusters of capiz-shell lights, quite a ride from T.M. Kalaw to the Manila end of the boulevard at Vito Cruz. It’s as if the world and time can­not wait for December, now that the civic-minded Lions […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 17:00:30 +0000

  NO wonder lawyers resort to their security blanket, “Dura lex, sed lex,” whenever they come across a law that is hard (dura) to carry out but because it is (sed) the law, it’s the law. RA 10529 is such a law, if our lawmaking senators and the head of the Department of Justice are […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 17:30:29 +0000

  IF President Duterte could predict how Italy would rout our PH team in the FIBA World Cup Games in Chi­na, can he also predict BuCor chief Nicanor Faeldon’s future? Public opinion is 99.5 percent convinced that the programmed release of the man with the nightmare hairdo, convicted for an abominable plot “hatched in hell,” […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:31:34 +0000

  A NATIONAL health emergency, they’re calling it. Initial reaction of adults and the elderly would be to say, yes, indeed, it’s dengue, or, the use of social media is leading young people to depression, even entertain thoughts of suicide. The emergency described by health authorities does not refer to the epidemic being spread by […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 07:13:12 +0000

IN People of the Philippines vs The Guy with a Haircut Only a Mother Can Love, Senator Franklin Drilon made the observation that the convict, appearing before me­dia in a polo shirt worn tucked in, with a chunky watch on his wrist, violated prison rules which should rule out “good conduct” etc. Funny, the senator […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 17:00:49 +0000

  THE banker attended Martha Stewart’s lecture (at R35,000 a pop for the best seats), but the selfie he took was with Mayor Isko Moreno. Six ladies dined around a table, four of them from Makati and two from Quezon City, with no one to represent Manila; they confessed to being fans of Isko. “I […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:31:27 +0000

  YOU’VE heard some of your friends saying they will avoid EDSA whatever the time of day, whatever the day, maybe even Sunday. Supposing we leave EDSA alone? For example: No EDSA-specific laws. No traffic enforcers. No HPG or motorcycle cops. No MMDA presence whatsoever. No designated lanes, yellow, white, or blue. No provincial bus […]