The arrest of the unlamented ex-president Rodrigo Duterte by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Mar. 11, 2025 is but the start of a process that the global community established to prosecute, convict or acquit the accused of extraordinary crimes, particularly those who cannot be tried impartially in their own countries by reason of their immense power, or the breakdown of the justice system.
Unlamented ex-president Rodrigo Duterte had long ridiculed the International Criminal Court (ICC) and even hurled racist slurs on former ICC Prosecutor Fathou Bensouda before insulting current Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC, who took office on June 16, 2021, and mocking him for not hurrying up and arresting him. His macabre yarn is that Khan should arrest him quickly before death beats him.
To be honest with her, she simply doesn’t have it, and no amount of embellishment would change her image as simply aloof, like all others born with a silver spoon, and she spoken a sentence or two to champion whatever advocacy she has in mind.
Cayetano loved POGOs so much when government reported that 118,239 people were employed by POGOs and they delivered P8.02-billion in revenues to Pagcor. By 2019, the Philippine National Police (PNP) was appalled by the rash of crimes in POGOs. By May 2024, 2,320 Filipinos were victimized by POGO hoodlums, representing 40% of the total number of victims, as well as 1,945 Chinese nationals or 34%, indicating that 26% of the entire number of victims were aliens.
Ruiz may fret and sulk at being stabbed behind his back by the usual suspects in the Palace along with his pals, Gil Cabacungan and Rey Marfil. Yet, when facts come from all directions – North, East, West and South – it is hard to tag them as fake. News is truthful; rumors are not. Jay, where there is smoke, there is fire.
Tagged by vloggers, trolls and crones as protector of the Porac, Pampanga POGO hub and alleged to be the owner of the 10-hectare lot where PGO buildings stand, Lapid raised hell in Oct. 2024, vowing to resign from the Senate after challenging his detractors to produce evidence that he owned the property and had been influencing local authorities not to touch the Chinese-owned POGO in Porac, Pampanga, where incriminating pieces of evidence linked a Duterte lawyer to the company owners.
The public perception is that she is neither here nor there, part of the Alyansa ng Bagong Pilipino (ABP) but she identifies herself as independent, which means she can be endorsed by the Dutertes and Apollo Quiboloy while being chummy with the complete Marcos Jr. slate.
If Erwin Tulfo cannot be truthful about his birth certificate, his visa application and his citizenship, how can the Filipino electorate trust him to craft laws that hew closely to the provisions of the 1986 Constitution that promote the rights and welfare of the Filipino people?
Bienvenido “Ben” Tulfo dismisses allegations that he, his brothers, sister-in-law and nephew as well as sister, resigned tourism secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, should not be classified as belonging to a political dynasty since they have “no bailiwick,” they have no control over any local government unit (LGU) and they have different personalities, advocacies and even logic.
In what has become a devastating boom-and-bust cycle for food producers, it is now tomato farmers who are being bankrupted as the farmgate prices of the fruit have hit rock-bottom at the range of P3 and P5 per kilo, certainly below production cost, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) chairman and Makabayan senatorial candidate Danilo Ramos disclosed on Feb. 28, 2025.
