Latest Editorial
April 17, 2025
Some crimes are so heinous, so extraordinarily vile that they become watershed moments in the national narrative — seared into the public’s consciousness as an assault on the people’s fundamental sense of security and order, and immediately a defining challenge for the government that must deal with the ramifications of the sordid deed. Such was the case with the 1993 Sarmenta-Gomez kidnap-murders during the Joseph Estrada presidency, which saw the country shaken to its core