THE political future of Vice President Sara Duterte hinges on the May 12, 2025 senatorial election. It’s because the senators will be voting either to acquit or convict her in their role as judges of the impeachment court. It will take two-thirds of the Senate – meaning 16 senators – to remove
May 7, 2025
WHILE I am not voting for re-electionist Senator Francis Tolentino on May 12, I agree with his view that the Chinese Embassy in Manila has contracted a PR firm, Infinitus Marketing Solutions, to hire “keyboard warriors” to advance pro-China interest in the Philippines. Tolentino’s first “Chinese interference” evidence (there could be more
May 5, 2025
KUDOS to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). It has discovered important evidence alluding to China’s “interference” in our May 12, 2025 national election with the recent arrest of a Chinese national carrying a high-tech spy device near the Commission on Elections (Comelec) headquarters in Manila. Identified as Tak Hoi Lao, was
May 2, 2025
THERE appears to be collusion among the government of China, survey firms and online trolls to influence the result of the forthcoming senatorial election. That is how I read the statements made by re-electionist Senator Francis Tolentino, National Security Council (NSC) director-general Jonathan Malaya and Malacañang’s press officer, Undersecretary Claire Castro. For a
April 30, 2025
WHENEVER I see old classmates, I tend to hark back to our good old days. But there was a time when Cris Dannug (a retired regional director of the Department of Labor and Employment) discouraged me. “Stop it,” he said. “It’s harmful.” If I got what he meant, he would rather have
April 28, 2025
I AM A frustrated grandfather at age 75. My only son, now 51, has remained single while eking out a living as a nurse in New York City. But I no longer think of it negatively because it has done my son good. He has made up his mind to stay single,
April 25, 2025
AFTER terminating their political alliance, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas and Congresswoman Juliene “Jam-jam” Baronda seemed to have minimized its impact on the basis of mutual understanding. The agreement called for the mayor to quit and let his daughter Raisa take over his position in the event she wins the May 12 mayoralty race. In
April 23, 2025
THIS writer was never as close to the late singer-actress Nora Aunor as others in the entertainment beat in the 1970s. But I had the unique status of having written a series of trivia on her for the defunct Daily Express, daily for four straight months. I could have stored that work
April 21, 2025
“MAMALANDONG anay kita,” warring politicians say on the air to explain why they are on ceasefire from “word war” on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. That reminds me of that day in 1959 when an old woman scolded us small boys playing at the plaza on a Good Friday. “Don’t you know that
April 16, 2025
By Herbert Vego IT’S hard to imagine “undesirable” candidates topping the senatorial surveys that are widely disseminated today in both the mainstream and online media. But it should come as an opportunity for us to prove them wrong by voting for alternatives who would bring back legitimacy to the Philippine Senate. Why should candidates identified
April 14, 2025
WHILE having coffee at Hotel del Rio, we stumbled upon the amiable regional director of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Atty. Dennis L. Ausan. He was so busy typing on his laptop that we dared not disturb him. But he stood up, approached our table and shook our hands. “Why so busy,
April 11, 2025
IN his YouTube vlog “Politika All the Way,” host Jojo Alejar of One News PH asked Larry Gadon – the Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation – what he thought of the senatorial surveys that are being touted as “snap shots” of who could make it to the “magic 12” on May 12,
April 9, 2025