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OPINION: Bankrupt in governance skills, Duterte rolls out his ‘kill’ solution

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Apr 02 05:55 PM

Instead of acknowledging compassionate attempts to mitigate the worst lockdown effects, President Duterte showed anger. Read more »

COVID19 and the least of our brethren

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Mar 15 04:00 AM

The Philippines' capital, Metro Manila, will face a nightmare should community transmission crop up in urban poor communities. Read more »

OPINION: When one man’s whims substitute for the national interest

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 26 09:07 PM

Never since the Marcos days has the Philippine media come under such a systemic attack. Duterte is determined to target an entire profession for subjugation. Read more »

OPINION: As more Diamond Princess Pinoy crew test positive for COVID-19, unrest grows

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 24 09:57 PM

Some of the Filipino crew aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise vessel where COVID-19 cases have ballooned to more than 600 cases, are asking the Philippine government to bring all workers home, including those who tested positive for the virus after a February 20 mass testing. Read more »

OPINION: Families, crew question protocols on infection-stricken cruise ship

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 21 10:18 PM

Filipinos comprise roughly half of the Diamond Princess’ 1,000-strong workforce. Forty-one have been infected with the COVID-19 and brought to isolation wards in Japan. Read more »

OPINION: Duterte's choices: Why we can't beat drug scourge

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 17 12:02 PM

Candidate Rodrigo Duterte campaigned in 2016 to rid the Philippines of drugs in six months. After almost four years of painting urban alleys red, with thousands of poor drug suspects dead in police operations and "vigilante" executions, Duterte’s program is a failure. Read more »

OPINION: Glaring omission

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Feb 02 10:38 PM

During crises, silence is the enemy. Information dissemination is among the most critical of tasks in the management of emergencies and disasters. Read more »

OPINION: Parlade on judges, the law and the NUJP

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 28 02:14 PM

The slain judge had acquitted in September this year a medical worker accused by the military of masterminding an attack on soldiers. His son had expressed that his father was killed under a "regime that sows terror to those who believe in justice." Read more »

OPINION: Duterte's nightmare—Access to information on drug war

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 27 12:54 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte’s move to fire Vice President Leni Robredo as head of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) invites national and international spotlights to focus on the black holes in a pet program that has snuffed out thousands of lives over 3 years. Read more »

OPINION: The President wasn’t joking—Marawi rehab monitors bare painful truth about slow pace of recovery

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 08 11:08 PM

At the height of the 5-month war in Marawi City between government forces and groups influenced by the Islamic State, Saripada Pacasum Jr. was a “white helmet” first responder. Read more »

OPINION: Churches, local govts appeal for aid to survivors of Mindanao quakes

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Nov 01 11:42 PM

Filipinos celebrating the feast days of souls and saints across the country and abroad can still send aid to hundreds of thousands of Mindanao families struggling in the aftermath of recent strong quakes. Read more »

OPINION: Killings of 7 youths spark tensions in new Muslim autonomous region

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 29 11:51 AM

BARMM officials are conducting a separate probe into reports that 7 youths, including several minors, were massacred by government troops on October 23.  Read more »

OPINION: Erupting in rage over a joke

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 20 05:29 PM

In an era where “kill” is heard almost weekly from the country’s most quoted person, the less we hear of it the better. Read more »

OPINION: Recycling game spits out ugly truth behind ‘drug war’

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 16 12:59 AM

Over 3 years, one thing is clear: Duterte’s war is an obscenity. That Filipinos, especially the richest and brightest, allowed this will forever be a stain on the national conscience.  Read more »

OPINION: Duterte’s overseas fans erupt with rage as police scandal taints anti-crime stance

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 07 11:15 PM

As President Rodrigo Duterte’s rough posture on crime and drugs unravel with a scandal over police allegedly recycling hundreds of millions of pesos worth of confiscated narcotics, his overseas supporters have erupted in rage. Read more »

OPINION: 'Tao Po,' 'Nanlaba' European tour to add headaches for Duterte gov't

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Sep 27 01:12 PM

“Tao Po,” the one-woman play on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal crackdown on narcotics suspects, opens Sept. 26 in Geneva, host city of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Read more »

OPINION: ‘Red-tagging’ affects even non-targets, Negros bishop warns

Inday Espina-Varona
Updated as of Sep 13 07:45 AM

The red-tagging of a government doctor in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental has affected 33 villages in need of government health care. Read more »

OPINION: Making sense of the Negros carnage

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Aug 02 10:16 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat “to replicate the atrocious acts done by communist rebels to the civilians” of Negros sweeps aside rights guaranteed by the Constitution despite no clear findings of responsibility in the deaths of more than 20 civilians over the past two weeks. Read more »

The Avengers of Didipio: Endgame for OceanaGold PH?

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Jul 30 07:17 PM

As local officials and people's organizations unite against OceanaGold's mining operations in Nueva Vizcaya, will Pres. Duterte extend the Australian-Canadian firm's license?  Read more »

OPINION: Why no one should buy PNP’s claim of “mistaken identity” in journo arrest

Inday Espina-Varona -- scaRRedcat
Updated as of Jun 10 05:07 PM

You don't swoop down on an old woman in an airport on the basis of corner store gossip. Read more »