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Have crimes really declined?

Published : Thursday January 17, 2013   |  Category : Editorials   |  Hits:99

THE other day, President Benigno Aquino 3rd proudly claimed at a formal affair in Intramuros that crime in our country has declined substantially. Read more

Attempts to emasculate the Court Administrator

Published : Wednesday January 16, 2013   |  Category : Editorials   |  Hits:413

CHIEF Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, we reported on page 1 yesterday, is still pushing for the decentralization of the Office of the Court Administrator, despite being rebuffed earlier by the Supreme Court en banc. Read more

Persecution and terrorism

Published : Wednesday January 16, 2013   |  Category : Editorials   |  Hits:268

The moves to persecute Supreme Court Administrator Midas Marquez will surely backfire. The President’s popularity rating is still very high but has been going down, albeit slightly. Making a martyr of Mr. Marquez will cause the President’s approval r... Read more

Poverty, unemployment and our boom economy

Published : Tuesday January 15, 2013   |  Category : Editorials   |  Hits:469

ONCE more the latest report of the Social Weather Stations (SWS)—which, after BusinessWorld had exclusive first rights to it yesterday, becomes ccessible to all today—shows that more Filipino families see themselves as poor (“mahirap”). Read more

Go after all illegal, unlicensed guns

Published : Monday January 14, 2013   |  Category : Editorials   |  Hits:302

If the Aquino administration is so adamantly against enforcing a total gun ban, then the next best thing is for the government to declare an all-out drive against the possession of all sorts of illegal and unlicensed firearms. Read more

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