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The Quezon City Regional Trial Court on Friday postponed anew the arraignment of Vice President Sara Duterte on three counts of grave threats, pending the resolution of motions filed by her defense team. Duterte appeared before QC RTC Branch 98 for the scheduled proceedings, but her lawyer, Paul Lawrence Lim, said the court opted to defer the arraignment because of …

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has raised concerns over the proliferation of fake persons with disabilities (PWD) identification cards, warning that their misuse could cause significant financial losses to businesses and the government. Chief State Counsel Dennis Arvin Chan said around six million PWD IDs remain unaccounted for, despite only 2.8 million PWDs being officially registered. Chan disclosed the figures …

Authorities seized an estimated ₱6.1 million worth of allegedly counterfeit slimming coffee and arrested eight workers during a raid on a warehouse in Plaridel, Bulacan last week. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said its operatives served a search warrant at a facility in Barangay Parulan over alleged violations of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. Confiscated items …

Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian said Sen. Mark Villar joined the majority bloc to help stabilize the chamber and keep its legislative agenda moving, as the Senate continues to tackle the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte. Gatchalian said he and Villar, longtime friends who frequently discuss the Senate’s direction, share the goal of ensuring legislative work proceeds smoothly and …

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has allowed prosecutors to include seven additional incidents in the crimes against humanity case against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte but barred a separate incident for falling outside the period covered by the confirmed charges. In an Oct. 9 decision, Trial Chamber III ruled that Incidents 50 to 56 could be considered within the existing …

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has filed graft and gross misconduct charges against Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Chairperson Richard Palpal-latoc and three other officials over alleged travel expense claims for a training program already funded by a foreign donor. Also charged before the Office of the Ombudsman were CHR General Administration Office Director IV Onesimo Cuyco, Accounting Division …

The National Security Council’s decision to investigate alleged financial inflows from China to Philippine-based companies linked to the family of Vice President Sara Duterte is the right move. Foreign money entering businesses connected to a sitting Vice President is not automatically proof of wrongdoing. But when intelligence officials raise questions about possible foreign influence, the government has an obligation to …

The media should inform the public about the possibility of a super El Niño without turning a potential climate crisis into an early panic campaign. Filipinos have barely recovered from months of rain, flooding and storm damage. Now warnings of severe drought and possible water interruptions are beginning to dominate the news cycle. The threat deserves preparation, but preparation is …

Recent findings of anthropologists point towards one of our cultural groups as carriers of an ancient form of mitochondrial DNA linking us to tens of thousands of years to the earliest humans on earth. That that strand of human genome originating from the navel of Africa towards our islands is in itself incomprehensible, given the lack of means to travel …

EBITDABy DIEGO C. CAGAHASTIAN The ongoing impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte in the Senate became a venue for the public and the senator-judges to know and look into the details of how our AMLC operates, and whether this agency follows the mandate given to it by the law. For instance, Senator-judge Alan Peter Cayetano called out the Anti-Money …