Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /October 22, 2021 The Senate blue ribbon committee has released its preliminary report on the Pharmally scandal that appears to have involved billions of pesos of fraudulent government transactions while the country was battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and the report’s conclusions are more than damning. There was a “grand conspiracy” surrounding…
EDITORIAL: Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 01, 2021 Could it be Stockholm Syndrome? The way the administration has been most protective toward Pharmally and its officials to try to shield them from withering public scrutiny readily calls to mind that emotional response when victims develop positive feelings toward their abusers. As has emerged in the…
By: Neil Arwin Mercado – Reporter/INQUIRER.net / September 17, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Senator Richard Gordon on Friday continued his offensive saying President Rodrigo Duterte does not act like a president, and is not a president that the Filipino people can respect. At the continuation of the Senate blue ribbon committee’s investigation on the government…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / January 22, 2021 Why did Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana suddenly and unilaterally terminate the 31-year agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense that bars police and military forces from entering the state university without first notifying its officials? The accord, signed in 1989 between…