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By Fr. Shay Cullen We are facing a growing crises and epidemic of child sexual abuse according to the numbers that are being reported and by educated guess that thousands more go unreported. It takes much courage and bravery for a child or threatened adult to report such crimes in a culture of apathy and indifference. Our Catholicism is challenged as useless if there is Read More …
By David Dizon ABS-CBNnews.com MANILA – Cagayan 1st District Juan Ponce “Jack” Enrile Jr., son of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, on Monday denied any involvement in the deaths of Ernest Lucas, Jr., son of a former Philippine Navy chief; businessman Robert Manalad Jr., and celebrity Alfie Anido. Speaking to ANC, Enrile said he has been trying to set the record straight for years due Read More …
A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) By Jose C. Sison The Philippine Star By its code name alone, “coplan armado” already connotes something sinister that has a very “chilling” effect. Even if it is a police operation purportedly conceived to get a notorious illegal gambling operator, something is already wrong with the manner it was carried out. Aside from the 13 lives lost the Read More …
By Non Alquitran The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – There was no shootout. Instead there was excessive use of force, and 13 men in a two-vehicle convoy drove into an ambush by a joint police-military contingent in Atimonan, Quezon last Jan. 6. This is the conclusion of a fact-finding committee created by Director General Alan Purisima, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), to investigate Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star Americans only react with utmost concern whenever an American youth goes amuck and goes on a rampage-killing spree. There’s the usual debate between the NRA (National Rifle Association) and those clamoring for stricter gun control. They debated the issue when the Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora, Fort Hood and Oak Creek mass murders Read More …
By LARRY MADARANG Manila Times BAGUIO CITY: After Gov. Amado Espino, who will be linked next to jueteng? A Liberal Party source during the vacation of President Benigno Aquino said Malacañang will be focusing its anti-jueteng drive further north. This was likewise confirmed by a statement released by Free Ilocos Sur, stating “the administration’s anti-jueteng drive will soon train its guns on Ilocos Sur.” According Read More …
By Carmela Fonbuena Rappler MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has filed a P31-M damage suit against veteran advertising executive and Philippine Star columnist Yolanda Villanueva-Ong for a supposedly libelous article that he claimed “besmirched” his reputation and caused him “mental anguish, serious anxiety, wounded feelings, moral shock, and social humiliation.” Enrile was offended by Ong’s October 16, 2012 column “Like father, like Read More …
Kaleidoscope By Perry Diaz When is enough, enough? When 20 innocent children, ages 6 and 7, are mercilessly murdered, then enough is enough! The heinous massacre of the children, mostly kindergartners, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the idyllic community of Newtown, Connecticut last December 14 has once again brought to the forefront of debate the issue of gun control. But unlike before when Read More …
By Cara Maresca MSNBC Faisal Ali (R) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, joins other people outside the White House to participate in a candle light vigil to remember the victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Faisal Ali (R) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, joins other people outside the White House Read More …
By Ellen Tordesillas Malaya The media community in Cagayan de Oro. Photo from Froilan Gallardo’s FB The 2009 Maguindanao massacre and the sad fact that justice continues to elude the victims were foremost in the minds of the delegates to the 9th Spectrum Fellowship National Campus Journalism conference held at Mambukal resort in Negros Occidental. The Spectrum is the official student media corps of the Read More …