Opinion and Commentary
Ledesma: Congress leadership struggle
June 4, 2019, 3:56 pm
WITH the start of congressional sessions in the offing, politicos are into the traditional leadership tug of war. Until topnotcher re-elected Sen. Cynthia Villar gave a smirk at Sen. Manny Pacquiao, the quest for the Senate Presidency seems to be leading to the path of incumbent Tito Sotto who is… Read More
Ledesma: Awaiting Advincula’s ‘whodunit’ revelation
May 29, 2019, 11:52 am
PETER J. Advincula is a conman. In fact, he is no ordinary conman and given his litany of criminal cases that should make him an extraordinary recidivist. Looks like he had been in and out of jail and he eluded numerous other complaints against him. That should make him a prime target for law… Read More
Ledesma: Glaciers, aquifers, water, and politics
May 24, 2019, 4:21 pm
UNTIL astronomers and cosmonauts can truly confirm that there is water in the surface of the Moon or Mars, our Earth, the third nearest from the Sun, remains to be the only planet in the solar system that has water. That makes water an inter-galactic commodity for this sustains life. I just came… Read More
Ledesma: Where and how is PRRD?
May 22, 2019, 2:17 pm
THEIR mouths may not be as uncouth and sacrilegious as that of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte, but their hearts and minds are as vile. Some are in religious habits and are pictures of piety and decency but they invoke the supernatural to inflict harm or death to the man they abhor. They watch his every… Read More
Ledesma: It’s time to move on
May 16, 2019, 8:17 am
AS the cliche goes, “the people have spoken”. Many polling precincts had become a virtual market place where votes were sold. But such is the nature of the beast. It’s a gamble where bets are placed in “the dark”...meaning one foregoes with probabilities and just say “come what may”.… Read More
Ledesma: The fake stories of Janet Cooke and Peter Advincula
May 9, 2019, 6:08 pm
“BIKOY” now has now a face -- Peter Advincula, a recidivist and going by the disclosures on Facebook by so many people he had victimized. He is not just an ordinary person. He fits the description of a con artist. He too has a star complex. He claimed that he had turned into a new leaf but… Read More
Ledesma: The debt trap scare and the rock star Bato
April 30, 2019, 3:30 pm
RONALD “Bato” dela Rosa, a former top cop of the Philippines and now running for senator, may not have the tongue of fire of Otso Diretso (OD) candidates but he handled the subjects in the CNN-sponsored debate with a dash of finesse and native wit. He is a straight talker, has the clearest and… Read More
From the Mail: Zamboanga power woes refuse to die down
April 27, 2019, 11:52 am
By Edwin G. Espejo ZAMBOANGA City is in the throes of another power crisis, and not because of a lack of supply. In fact, on the island of plenty, Zamboanga is empty, so to speak. Moreover, hasn’t Mindanao already overcome near-disastrous power crises early in the decade when the power supply… Read More
Ledesma: Desperate black propaganda
April 21, 2019, 11:37 pm
THE road to perdition for the gasping Liberal Party is as slippery as the fate of its senatorial candidates in the coming mid-term elections on May 13. It’s political banner “Otso Diretso” had disintegrated. By itself, the party is like a powder keg out to implode. It is a mixture of… Read More
Ledesma: Bikoy is as farcical as his story
April 10, 2019, 2:49 pm
‘BIKOY’, the phantom character conjured by the opposition to demonize the family members of Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte, reflects the desperation of the vanishing Yellow generation of politicians in the Philippines. Yellow is associated with the Aquino political block whose image diminished… Read More
Ledesma: Duterte’s war
April 2, 2019, 4:00 pm
THE emergence and confluence of black and fear propaganda on the heels of May 13 elections are too coordinated and well-orchestrated that it only succeeded in portraying how distraught the political opposition had become. It revives that infamous and desperate “oust Duterte” plot of an… Read More
Ledesma: Big plates don’t prevent crime
March 25, 2019, 2:26 pm
ENLARGING the motorcycle plates is a faulty solution in solving crimes committed by suspects that are mostly riding in tandem. We have seen quite a number of videos taken by CCTV cameras. If the good Sen. Dick Gordon thinks that large license plates will deter these criminals then he badly… Read More
Ledesma: PRRD did not use Moses staff to draw water
March 21, 2019, 1:23 pm
THE acute shortage of potable water in many parts of the National Capital Region has severely affected the daily norm of metropolitan lifestyle and routine in scores of barangays where the spigots had ran dry. The long queues of people waiting for fire trucks that had been used to ration water are… Read More
Ledesma: Araw ng Davao and more
March 14, 2019, 5:48 pm
MARCH is Davao City’s anniversary month and this year’s 82nd celebration is another big event as domestic and foreign tourists come to witness the many colorful activities which the city government had planned. Each year is always an improvement of the previous and 2019 is expected to be… Read More
Ledesma: Desperate Otso Diretso
March 7, 2019, 5:34 pm
THE Liberal Party candidates known by their slogan “Otso Diretso” are in dire need of a crowd for a much needed cathartic ego massage. They have gone around trying to muster an audience which would listen to their peroration but even their colleague Mar Roxas had gotten tired of their campaign… Read More
Ledesma: Campaign, libel and all that jazz
February 23, 2019, 6:03 pm
WHEN boredom sets in after the hearing, reading and watching all the dramatics about Maria Ressa’s libel and tax evasion case, try focusing on what’s happening in the senate campaign trail. It’s more exciting and comic. What could beat “sexy”, “pogi” and “tanda”, all facing… Read More
Ledesma: The HnP election juggernaut
February 13, 2019, 8:44 pm
THE senatorial and Party-List race has begun and for the Hugpong Ng Pagbabago (HnP), the starting point is in vote-rich Pampanga. It is a show of force, a second chapter in the emerging Regional Party that in the first canto of its foray in national politics cut short the term of the third most… Read More
Ledesma: Sen. Bong Go? Why not?
February 9, 2019, 3:35 pm
BONG Go, the special assistant to the President and now a senatorial candidate, recently landed in the 5-6 slot in the SWS survey. Promptly, as if on cue, he was a subject of unkind and cruel vilification aimed at, how else but, dislodging him from the comfortable lead and picture him as nothing… Read More
From the Mail: Dengvaxia mob
February 6, 2019, 1:26 pm
By Undersecretary Lorraine T. Badoy THE Dengvaxia issue has taken on a life of its own so that, in order to clarify and hopefully, to calm and erase confusion, I have thought it best to write a list. Just so we’re clear as day. 1. Does the Dengvaxia issue fall under the PCOO’s purview? Just… Read More
Ledesma: Davao City’s Bulk Water Project
February 5, 2019, 12:37 pm
DAVAO City is providentially endowed with great and unique resources: fertile soil, rivers and streams, forest reserves where lies the recharge areas of its rich aquifers. Much of its watershed areas had been raped by loggers who made fortunes out of the mahoganies that they cut and exported. Many… Read More
