Then as now, the position of Eddie Monteclaro, president of the National Press Club at that time, remains relevant. - Francis Escudero

He was already in Congress twenty-one years ago, in 1992. In that pre-cellphone age, Mr. President, distinguish colleagues, myself, Sonny Angara, Sonny Trillanes, JV (Ejercito), Grace (Poe), Alan (Cayetano), and Nancy (Binay), all of us were still college. Bam (Aquino) was in high school.

Black propaganda and negative politics don't and won't work here/elsewhere simply because of one thing - it is based on a lie.

There should be a top to bottom revamp of the Bureau of Corrections. Replacing the head is not enough. That has been done several times before and did not work.