By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III As of this writing, a handful of relatives, friends and loved ones had passed while scores of others are battling different kinds of ailments after getting infected with Covid-19. The viciousness of the virus and its characteristic of being a fast spreader had gripped government regulators in Iloilo forcing
June 5, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III SEEPAGES of dilemma created by the pandemic affects both those who govern and the governed. Iloilo City is once again teeming with checkpoints on the heels of a recent surge of Covid-19 positive cases. The closure of non-essential businesses is proving insalubrious to the business climate and word in
June 1, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The Covid-19 pandemic is causing a crisis that conflates economic, political, and even personal issues. On the global stage, President Joe Biden had ordered the reinvestigation of the provenance of the virus- whether it was caused by “Zoonotic spillover” – one which transfers from animals to humans-, or whether
May 28, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III In the legal realm, a paradigm shift in jurisprudential-trending reverberates in its every corner. This could not be more true than with the recent ruling of the Supreme Court in Tan-Andal v. Andal which came down on May 11, 2021. Here, the doctrinal trajectory had gone the other way
May 17, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III News about the divorce of Bill Gates and Melinda Gates had sent shock waves around the world. They had seemed a perfect couple with a shared philanthropic vision of ending global hunger and anticipating pandemics, if not preventing them from happening altogether. Yet again, this only proves that
May 12, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The mushrooming of community pantries countrywide had taken such a significant political shape and color that even the most innocent acts of charity would not be spared of controversy. Hogging the news of late is the birthday bash of popular actress Angel Locsin which she celebrated “community pantry-style”. It
May 5, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The verdict came in at 4:30PM EST of April 20 (about 5AM of April 21 in the Philippines) in the jury trial of Derek Chauvin who was charged with the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA. It took the jury only ten hours to reach a unanimous
April 30, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III As the second wave of Covid-19 hits the shores of many countries around the world, it comes with the increasing paranoia that human labor is becoming redundant if not obsolete. This is owed to the prevalence of automated services which was highlighted by the string of lockdowns that
April 27, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III As the digital world is starting to mature, so too is the pervasiveness of the use of digital platforms. Controversy erupts when they are misused (or, worse, abused) and the victim scrambles to run after evidence that is not meant to be retained or saved, or can be
April 21, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Bitter irony struck on Holy Week when a food delivery driver was felled by bullets for the petty reason that some paperwork was drenched. It was reported that four shots rang out shortly after the Food Panda driver lowered his food container on the security guard’s table to
April 5, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III Is life really unfair? Are the asymmetries that we have to grapple with, hard facts of life that we should be resigned to? People of Asian descent living or sojourning in America now have to deal with racial prejudice or bigotry because they are (unfairly) being associated with
March 30, 2021
By Atty. Eduardo T. Reyes III The “right to a public trial” is enshrined in the Constitution. One of its facets is the right to access by the public and the press over happenings in court proceedings. As the term implies, it is a “right”; which rightly belongs to the accused. And just like
March 23, 2021