Whatever you do reflects upon the group
Atty. Vincent S. Isles One of the reasons I maintain my ethics as a lawyer despite the many chances of committing unethical acts is my recognition that any unethical, immoral and/or illegal I do…
Commentary
2016 Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections if the Philippines utilized an electoral college system
Assumptions: Each Region is assigned electoral votes equal to the number of district representatives plus 2. Each Region uses a winner-take-all approach to distribute its assigned electoral votes. Since there…
On the election of Rep. Velasco as House Speaker
With all due respect to my lawyer-friends who are commenting on the issue, the validity of the “election” of Rep. Velasco as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives…
Dapat bawiin
Kara showed me her group’s answer to the exercise in their Agrarian Reform Law and Social Legislation class after they had submitted it. The question talked about a person who…
Dismantling the oligarchy sa imong kagaral
Dismantling the oligarchy is protecting the rights of labor to the full, securing full employment and equality of employment for all, and guaranteeing security of tenure, humane conditions of work,…
How to survive torture
Understanding the purpose of torture is already half of surviving it. Always remember that the goal of the torturer is not to kill you, but to compel you to disclose…
A better quarantine pass system for Cebu City
Theoretically, because there are only 178k quarantine passes (QP), half of them odd and half of them even, at any given time during Monday to Saturday, the max allowed number…
Under what authority?
The authority of the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID or IATF-MEID) to impose guidelines on the implementation of community quarantine is by virtue of…
A Statement of Civic Alarm
Note: The following text, with a few modifications, was issued by some organizations based in Cebu City. We, the undersigned leaders of each listed civil society organization in Cebu City,…
Cebu should celebrate its foundation day on June 4, 1565, not August 6, 1569
August 6, 1569 was the date of the confirmation of the position of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi as governor of Cebu in a royal cedula. More than four years before,…