President Duterte was reported to have walked out of a Cabinet meeting on Feb. 6 after a 30-minute tirade. The cause of his exasperation? The slow pace of land conversion under the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). DAR’s chief mandate is to push for land reform, a pillar of the social justice agenda of the government over successive administrations now, and the full implementation of which was also a key campaign promise of Mr. Duterte. But why is the
Some readers might have immediately recognized the play on words about many Filipino families having a Father, the capital letter F referring to a Catholic ordained priest who becomes a father. Catholic priests who father children are probably the worst-kept secrets in the Philippines, to the point where it becomes a
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