Tag: new bilibid prison

Senator Lacson ‘s Intrigue Against Spokesman Panelo

September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 P. Farol 2 Comments

Senator Lacson and other detractors of the Duterte administration were quick to pounce on Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo’s letter to the Bureau of Pardons and Parole referring a letter from the daughter of convicted rapist killer Mayor Antonio Sanchez appealing for executive clemency. Senator Panfilo Lacson was among the more prominent voices accusing Panelo of…

Crime, Politics

Alleged Iloilo narcopolitician Jed Patrick Mabilog tweets ‘God will be my shield’

August 30, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

Famed drug lord killer Chief Inspector Jovie Espenido has been assigned to Iloilo City. And it seems no less than the mayor of that city is quaking in his boots. Jed Patrick Mabilog has been serving as mayor of Iloilo City since 2010. Over that period until now, Iloilo was widely-regarded as a haven for…

Crime

Former USec Francis Baraan III: Was he really involved in drug trafficking at the New Bilibid Prisons?

July 31, 2017December 24, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

Last we recall, Senator Leila De Lima remains locked up on charges of “sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation of illegal drugs” related to allegations that she was involved in a conspiracy together with other high-ranking government officials to allow a multi-million peso drug trade to flourish within the National Bilibid Prisons (NBP)…

Crime

Aquino government’s failures made Philippine problems harder to fix

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 Ilda 30 Comments

I was compelled to start blogging in 2009 about Philippine politics and culture after I read a report that former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III who was then still a Senator announced that he will be running for President in 2010. I found it extremely ridiculous that the reason why he decided to run was…

Crime, Politics, Society

Leila’s Dilemma: To Lie or To Hide

July 31, 2016 zaxx 20 Comments

Bilibid or not! The national penitentiary (the “New” Bilibid Prison) at the heart of Imperial Manila, the supposedly most secure (i.e., MAXIMUM security) facility on the face of the republic for incarcerating the worst criminals in this corner of the planet and thereby ensuring the public these scumbags CAN NEVER EVER cause any more trouble in Philippine…

Crime, 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

5-star perks for VIP inmates bared in Philippine prison but top jail exec excused!

December 17, 2014December 18, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

At first, I really didn’t understand what the big “shock” over the 5-star-hotel-like trappings laid out for “special” inmates in the Philippines’ main prison facility, the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila was all about. Stories about the top-notch perks enjoyed by the country’s prison royalty have been the stuff of legend for…

Crime, Government, Society

Sen Bong Revilla could’ve had VIP treatment in jail had he and his entourage just kept their mouths shut

June 26, 2014May 12, 2019 benign0 16 Comments

Filipinos today are gleefully scrutinising, “debating”, and exchanging trivial factoids on the minutiae of the manner with which two popular Philippine Senators, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla, are being detained by the state on “plunder” charges — the physical conditions of their jail cells, what they’re having for breakfast and lunch, how they look in…

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