EDITORIAL | January 20, 2019 At the rate the number of violent events is increasing on a daily basis, the present legal, social, technological and cultural mechanisms, systems and frameworks that used to work seems unable to cope with the social conflagration. Here and there, we read of the shooting of people perpetrated by unknown… Read More Understanding, compassion needed today
On January 21, residents of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and the cities of Isabela in Basilan and Cotabato will decide whether or not to join the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BAR). Less than a month later, on February 6, residents of Lanao del Norte and North Cotabato will also decide whether to… Read More Understanding the BOL
If we still remember it, political dynasty after the 1972 Martial Law started at the time of the late President Corazon C. Aquino when the new Constitution was framed and ratified and a new local government code was in adopted. Among the principal authors of these changes was then local government secretary or minister Aquilino… Read More If not Federal, what about a RevGov?
EDITORIAL |March 31, 2018 The presidential commission created by President Duterte to study how the Philippines will adopt a federal system of government suggests to include Sabah as among the proposed Philippine federal states obviously aimed to strengthen the country’s claim over Sabah, or to assert its sovereignty. The Jabidah Massacre is a very significant… Read More Did Brunei really cede Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago?
Is this the beginning to express suppressed mixed feelings of hatred and fears of the Maranaos after the siege of their beloved Marawi City? The siege, like of which, had never happened before in the Maranao history claimed over a thousand of their lives, destroyed their properties, turned their beautiful city into ashes and debris,… Read More Marawi is Ours!
EDITORIAL | March 11, 2018 The 50th anniversary of the infamous Jabidah Massacre will be marked on March 18. It is expected there will be commemoration tour to Corregidor, the place where the massacre was said to have taken place on March 18, 1968. Such tour is an annual event sponsored by the regional government… Read More Is Jabidah Massacre a hoax?
EDITORIAL | February 27, 2019 They almost have shaped our world according to the New World Order: Neo Bangsamoro among it. This is exactly what the Zionists wanted us to be.They wanted us to be their carbon copy. Unfortunately, Maranaos can hardlyabsorb and understand what (are) these messianic events unfolding.They have eyes but cannot see.… Read More The New World Order
EDITORIAL | February 18, 2018 It is already nine months, or almost, since the siege and residents in the Ground Zero of Marawi are not yet able to see their homes and question after question that is haunting them is: “Why can we not see our homes after all these months?” The government has ready… Read More Evacuees still ask: Why can we not see our homes in Ground Zero?
EDITORIAL | February 10, 2018 Visit the barangays in Marawi which are declared cleared and safe after the siege and you will find out that considerable number of the actual resident-returnees registered by the barangay government units, the DSWD and other agencies are not really living in their respective barangays anymore. They are still in… Read More What will happen to Marawi if evacuees will not return?
EDITORIAL | December 27, 2017 Six months had already gone after the tragic Marawi siege and there is no master plan yet. On December 7, the chairman of the House Committee on Housing and Urban Development urged the local government in Marawi to immediately submit a master plan on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the… Read More Six months after and there is no master plan yet?
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