Just as Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos sought Malacañang’s intervention on the issue of having “too many generals” in the Philippine National Police, more than 100 newly promoted star-rank officers took their oath before President Marcos in the Palace. On Sept. 20, according to reports, the President administered the oath-taking of 57 officers—four police lieutenant generals, 10 police major generals, and 43 police brigadier generals. A week later on Sept. 27, the second batch was sworn in,
Remember the confusion about two weeks ago over vog (volcanic smog, which hit Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas) and smog (which affected mainly Metro Manila)? People experienced similar symptoms, mainly respiratory, but it was only in places close enough to Taal where there was ash fall and people complained about a sulfuric smell. Those were apocalyptic days what with dark skies, dirty drizzling, and a mad jumble of malaise and symptoms affecting the eyes, nose, throat. Less than two weeks later, everyone seems to have forgotten what happened. Let’s not forget, too, that a few days after the vog and smog in Luzon,
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