Hell hath no fury like a Supreme Court insulted. The high court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), has strongly rebuked Solicitor General Jose Calida for using his high office to intervene in the private election protest filed by defeated candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong’’ Marcos Jr. against Vice President Leni Robredo. In a Nov. 17, 2020 resolution made public only last week, the PET unanimously dismissed Marcos’ second bid seeking the inhibition of Supreme Court Associate
More than a century ago, when most of Asia lacked even a single modern university, the Philippines produced one of the finest minds of that era. Years before Jose Rizal fired up a nation through his gripping novels, Gregorio Sancianco penned his pioneering work, “El Progreso De Filipinas” (1881), which was published in Madrid. This was arguably the country’s first scholarly work on political economy, a detailed analysis of the administrative and economic structures in the heart of the Spanish East Indies. One of the most interesting aspects of Sancianco’s analysis was debunking the self-serving colonial myth of supposed native indolence (“la
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