Monitoring the BBL Debate
It’s disheartening—no, disgusting! But that’s what one feels watching the resumed deliberations on the Mamasapano Incident in the House of Representatives of Congress.
It’s disheartening—no, disgusting! But that’s what one feels watching the resumed deliberations on the Mamasapano Incident in the House of Representatives of Congress.
There has been ceaseless attacks made by certain Senators in Congress against the BBL or Bangsamoro Basic Law, which aims to establish an autonomous Islamic State in the Mindanao region.
For UP this may still be the mid-semester, but for the rest of the Philippines it is already the season for graduations and finishing the academic year.
Which from the beginning was already there in a the ego spot of President Noynoy’s personal agenda as a prime motive — the Nobel Peace Prize?
Today is one of those great occasions when we get to celebrate our young people – their achievements, their perseverance and their successes as they grow up.