The majority of the Supreme Court committed hara kiri with its bludgeoning the independence of the judiciary and desecrating the sanctity of the Constitution by ousting Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in an improvident quo warranto proceeding.
The close 8-6 vote deserves a very serious review of the decision in a motion for reconsideration.
President Rodrigo Duterte’s inordinately lame response to China’s alarming missile build-up in the West Philippine Sea is grossly unpatriotic and gravely disheartening.
Instead of immediately ordering the filing of a diplomatic protest and instituting other viable options against China under international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Duterte is banking on China’s alleged promise of protecting the Philippines.
Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the principal convenor of Makatao (Mambabatas para sa Karapatang Pantao), said that both Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made “irresponsible and baseless accusations” that human rights groups are being used by drug lords and syndicates to stymie the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
These two apologists of President Rodrigo Duterte are making blanket accusations without naming names or providing evidence, according to Lagman.
The Ziga Memorial District Hospital (ZMDH) in Tabaco City will soon become a 250-bed hospital facility from its present 50-bed capacity.
This is assured when House Bill No. 7355, authored by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman of the First District of Albay, was approved on second reading on March 21, 2018 by the House of Representatives.
The bill is expected to be approved on third and final reading upon resumption of sessions after the barangay elections on May 14, 2018.
The availability of legal separation and annulment of marriage under the Family Code enhances, rather than deters, the need to legalize absolute divorce.
If legal separation and annulment of marriage are allowed, then the fuller relief or remedy of divorce is legal, logical and reasonable.
