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By Neal H. Cruz
It is already less than two weeks to Election Day but Malacañang is still doing a dirty trick that has left citizens of San Pedro, Laguna, in an uproar. Last April 5, the Palace issued an order removing Mayor Calixto R. Cataquiz as mayor of the municipality, purportedly to implement a Supreme Court ruling that bars his “reemployment” in the government, which stemmed from an administrative case lodged against him almost a decade ago when he was the general manager of the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA).
Posted: May 2nd, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
During an interview of Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon by Inquirer editors, columnists, and reporters at the Inquirer offices the other week, there was talk of fake journalists, derisively called “hao shiaos,” acting as fixers at the Bureau of Customs. It was suggested that the number of “reporters” covering Customs be limited only to the legitimate [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Senatorial candidate Paolo Benigno Aquino was the lone guest at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday. He talked about a lot of things but what interested many of the journalists present was why he was nicknamed “Bam,” which can easily be misspelled as “Bum,” especially because he has decided to wade into the murky world of politics.
Posted: April 23rd, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Question: Who is running the elections? Answer: The Commission on Elections. Wrong. It is the Supreme Court. At least that’s how it appears to us. The Constitution says election matters are the domain of the Comelec. It is supposed to be the expert in elections. But lately, the Supreme Court has been arrogating unto itself [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
On Aug. 26, 1896, in Balintawak (historians differ on the exact date and place), Andres Bonifacio and his Katipuneros tore up their cedulas issued by the Spanish colonial government to start the Philippine Revolution. Today, believe it or not, those hated cedulas are still with us and a modern Andres Bonifacio, a woman this time, still wants them figuratively torn up.
Posted: April 11th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Former President Joseph Estrada, mayoral candidate for Manila, was criticizing his rival, Mayor Alfredo Lim, and the Manila police for not being able to curb criminality in the city during the Kapihan sa Manila forum at the Diamond Hotel last Monday when I got a note that a former Manila cop wanted to respond to all of Erap’s criticisms of the police. I told him to come forward.
Posted: April 9th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
(Continued from Wednesday) The other senatorial candidates clinging to the apron strings of their better-known relatives are Grace Poe and Jun Magsaysay, both of Team PNoy, and JV Ejercito Estrada of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA). Their television commercials, tarpaulins and posters, and handbills use their famous relatives, dead or alive, to push their [...]
Posted: April 4th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Like some hideous creatures from outer space, political dynasties are multiplying in the Philippines in spite of a constitutional provision banning them. Even neophyte politicians like Manny Pacquiao, from whom one would expect better behavior, has started his own dynasty. At the same time that he is running for reelection as representative of Saranggani, he is fielding his wife, Jinkee, as a candidate for vice governor of the province, and his brother as a mayoral candidate. Next, he may field his mother, Mommy Dionisia, as a dancing candidate for governor.
Posted: April 2nd, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Political dynasties are proliferating in spite of the constitutional ban on them. In Cavite, home of President Emilio Aguinaldo, matinee idol Leopoldo Salcedo, bandit Nardong Putik, and kapeng barako, four families are fighting it out for local positions in the May elections. The ruling Remulla dynasty is fielding three members; the Revillas led by senator [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
The Malaysian government and P-Noy’s administration are fast making heroes of Agbimuddin Kiram, crown prince of the Sultanate of Sulu, and his followers, who are now being chased and killed by overwhelming Malaysian security forces in Sabah. The persecution of Filipinos in Sabah is no different from the persecution that the American Indians and African [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
The suicide of a student of the University of the Philippines and its faulty policies on tuition, as well as the raging Sabah crisis, took up most of the time of the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday. Rep. Teddy Casiño, Mayor Edward Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, and lawyer Samson Alcantara [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Neal H. Cruz
Importers of used vehicles at Port Irene and the chief of the Manila Police District (MPD) were at the Kapihan sa Manila at the Diamond Hotel last Monday to air their sides on recent controversies hounding them, the vehicle importers on the alleged smuggling of used vehicles in the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport (CSEZF), and the MPD on the arrest of Vice Mayor Isko Moreno and his supporters for holding an alleged prohibited bingo game in Manila. Jaime Vicente, president of the Automotive Rebuilding Industries in Cagayan Valley, was accompanied by lawyer Kate Modesto, while MPD chief Alejandro Gutierrez was accompanied by the MPD legal officer, Maj. Dennis Wagas.
Posted: February 26th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
