“I cannot imagine how PASG personnel untrained as customs inspectors or examiners can correctly determine misdeclaration and underdeclaration of cargoes.”
by Ducky Paredes
As a general rule, legitimate businesses will not go into smuggling. Thus, for most of the goods that go through our ports and are processed by the Bureau of Customs will be paying whatever […]
“Did the heavy hand of Gloria Arroyo finally destroy among the finer things that the Marcos years bequeathed to us and which has been improved on by succeeding administrations?”
by Ducky Paredes
On June 7, 1973, Ferdinand Marcos signed Presidential Decree 208, which declares that “the arts and letters are under the patronage of the State, as […]
Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Ngayong nailibing na natin ang dating Pangulo Corazon C. Aquino, sana naman ay hindi natin agad kalilimutan ang pinakita niyang katapangan sa panahon ng panganib, tunay na paglilingkod sa ating bayan at ang kaniyang katapatan sa lahat ng bagay. Hindi siya sinungaling, mandaraya o kurakot.
Sana’y sa ating pagpili […]
“Hooray! Can we now get back to being a country and stop being merely the harridan’s plaything?”
by Ducky Paredes
The rejection by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) of the request of the Office of the President (OP) to expand the list of nominees to two vacant slots in the 15-member Supreme Court (SC) may well […]
“I am looking forward to my travels to Southeast Asia, and the Philippines will be the coordinating country in the U.S. relationship with ASEAN. . .”
by Ducky Paredes
Gloria’s finally meeting with Barack did not at all go well. After trying to connect with President Barack Obama for so many months, their meeting was one where […]
Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Bukas ay ililibing na si Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, ang ika-11 na Pangulo ng Pilipinas na namatay sa colon canser noong Sabado. Ako’y nakapaglingkod sa pamahalaan ni Cory bilang kahuli-hulihan niyang Press Secretary. Noon lamang ako nakapagtrabaho sa isang gobiyerno, isang pangyayaring hindi ko na gusto pang maulit.
Dapat kasi na ang pinaglilingkurang Pangulo ay […]
“Is there any possibility that we will ever have again a president as honest, transparent and truthful as Cory was?”
by Ducky Paredes
She was, more than any other, the real miracle of 1986. The result of her actions, the peaceful end of a dictatorship and the return to Democracy, which is often cited as miraculous was […]
