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By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective For the first time in recent years, the sitting president’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) was met not by protests but by support for the change he promised during his campaign and right after winning the elections....
“Our fight goes on and we won’t bring down our banners.”
“As an executive agreement, it is now within the power of President Duterte to terminate the agreement.”
Many urban poor pin their hopes on President Duterte’s plan to improve the country.
Five days before President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his first state-of-the-nation address on Monday, he was gifted by the Pulse Asia Survey with the report that its nationwide survey on July 2-8 (his first week in office) showed a 91 percent trust rating for...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective Despite his tough guy, macho image and no-holds-barred, brash manner of speaking, President Duterte is turning out to be a practitioner of the politics of accommodation. Just yesterday, July 19, former president Gloria...
“Thank you, President Duterte, for having the courage to tell the truth.”
It’s not so much his liberal use of profanity that separates Rodrigo R. Duterte from his predecessors, but the residency in his person of both progressive and conservative tendencies. No other Philippine president can be so described. Benigno S. C. Aquino III, for...
Since the beginning of his campaign for the presidency, Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of disregarding due process, especially with his endorsement of extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals by the so-called Davao death squad. His campaign promise of ending criminality and the drug menace within the first six months into his presidency stirred reactions of disbelief, on one hand, and fears that he would run roughshod on human rights on the other.
The NUJP called on the new chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to immediately look into the likely involvement of police officers in the recent attacks against journalists in Surigao and Digos, especially in the spirit of Director General Ronald dela Rosa’s vow that his leadership will be “relentless in internal cleansing efforts.”
Rodrigo Duterte begins his six-year term as the 16th president of the Philippines today, having been borne to that post by mass discontent with the Aquino administration and his own incessant theme of putting an end to both corruption and criminality within months....
Formally speaking as President of the Philippines soon after making his oath of office last Thursday, Rodrigo R. Duterte made it abundantly clear that “Malasakit, Tunay na Pagbabago” (Compassion, Real Change) define the character and direction of his...
“We welcome Duterte’s vow to stop contractualization. We have yet to see him keep his promise.”
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