By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – Controversial TV host Willie Revillame returned big time on primetime TV in a revamped variety and game show with many firsts, promises and thanks to its viewers and supporters. Without delving in detail into the issue that forced their old program off the air for a month, Revillame introduced…
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Brawner’s best is not good enough
Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Information Office is hoodwinking the public when he says that AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Victor Ibrado is ordering the transfer of the 43 health workers collectively known as the Morong 43 to a Philippine National Police (PNP) facility, even as they have supposedly communicated their desire to remain at the military’s Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, where they are now detained. He is trying to make the AFP and its chief of staff appear more magnanimous than they actually are.
Salungguhit: OBL’s Expanding Dragnet
OBL’s Expanding Dragnet
Alex Montes: A Doctor to the People, Hurt and Broken
By MARYA SALAMAT
Dr. Alex Montes is a retired surgeon. But even in retirement, he found time to serve the poor through the medical missions he organized and joined and through the trainings he conducted for community health workers and volunteers. Today, he is behind bars — abused, tortured and humiliated by a regime that is terrified by his passion.
Case vs Sison in Netherlands Dismissed
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat The Dutch government’s Public Prosecution Service has dismissed the murder charges against Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman and current National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Jose Maria Sison for “insufficient legal and convincing evidence”. Dutch police had arrested and briefly detained Sison on…
Transfer Ka Bel to a Hospital outside Camp Crame, Doctors Recommend to Court
BY LISA C. ITO Bulatlat.com While the Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to be hell-bent on keeping 73-year old Crispin Beltran detained at a Camp Crame hospital, doctors and psychiatrists are recommending his transfer to a hospital with adequate facilities. This, they say, is the only way to significantly lessen his chances of having a…