Customs and Traditions

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Bureau of Customs Employee’s Association denounced the “Gestapo-style” raid conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation in their offices premises.

The NBI busted Renato Palgan, chief of the district’s X-Ray Project Team, for allegedly demanding Php50,000 bribe from a customs broker named Rose de Luna.

Club Elite

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When my government makes policies that create a richer, smaller elite, I must now be suspicious of the candidates it pushes, the legislation it creates and the manner by which it executes the laws.

A government whose obvious bias is for the rich cannot be trusted to keep the interests of the majority of its people in mind nor can it be relied on to protect the weakest members of society.

The Free-est

  

Some members of the mainstream media have no idea of what their obligations are.

Under international law, even the opinions of columnists in newspapers can constitute evidence of a state practice.

Thus, those opinion writers who are so quick to defend what is rapidly becoming an indefensible administration policy on Sabah have overstepped their bounds by calling the Kirams act of returning to Sabah as an “invasion.”

The Right to a Name

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IN rites of exorcism, the priest (the exorcist) orders and demands that the demon give up its name and speak it. Once the name is given, the exorcist gains power of him and can control him and order him to leave the human host.

Wait. What?

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When former Governor Grace Padaca was appointed to the Commission on Elections, despite her pending case for graft coupled with the spectacle of the DILG secretary, aided and abetted by the President paying for her bail, it was bad enough.