Category: Law and Order

FOR the geographically challenged, BESRA sounds like a place in Iraq. Or maybe a new Disney character. It could also be an upcoming rock and roll band. It actually stands for Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda—the overarching goal of the Department of Education (DepEd) to attain functional literacy by 2015. It is now in its [...]

I don’t want to be a killjoy but it is time you know about Article 318. It happens the whole year through and becomes acute in the countdown to the New Year when all the manghuhulas fortune tellers come out with their predictions. It is the business of palm reading, tarot card reading, interpreting signs, [...]

I PEER into my crystal ball and what do I see? A stronger peso yet to hover 38 to a dollar. Whatever measures taken will not work simply because we are in uncharted territories. The peso has never appreciated historically and at these dramatic levels. The dollar will taper off if the United States pulls [...]

Quick, what happened this year? Off to top of my head and still causing me sleepless nights is Mr. Trillanes. Media rules! Who covers the excesses of media? The watchman. And then the string of scandals with ZTE at the pinnacle. De Venecia, Abalos, De Venecia sound like a slogan. Zoom back to the hostage [...]