Tag: herbert colangco

De Lima should learn from Arroyo how to suffer with quiet dignity when under fire

September 23, 2016 benign0 32 Comments

It’s beginning to emerge that there was a rivalry between gang leaders Herbert Colangco and Jaybee Sebastian within the New Bilibid Prison. It seems, in the midst of all that, Sebastian emerged as the one favoured for coddling by the Philippine Government during the administration of former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. Senator Leila…

Crime, Government, Politics

De Lima a failure as head of the CHR and DOJ, now also a failure as a senator

September 21, 2016November 6, 2021 Ilda 50 Comments

“I might be jumping to conclusions, but what if it is true?” Those are the words of Senator Leila De Lima in her privilege speech right after she said “The implication is that we have a group of serial killers and mass murderers right within the ranks of the organization which is supposed to protect…

Crime, Government, Politics

Aquino supporters are blocking Duterte’s War on Drugs

July 23, 2016September 30, 2016 benign0 109 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” has a problem. There is a noisy minority who is against it and bent on making Duterte look like the bad guy at every step of his campaign to rid the country of the drug scourge. As if it weren’t hard enough dealing with drug lords and other…

Crime, Government, Politics