In a case[1] decided by the Supreme Court on February 03, 2025, it was clarified that the 2019 Revised Rules on Evidence (A.M. No. 19-08-15-SC) modified the title of the Best…
Category: Feature
Bryce McIntyre:
How to Choose the Right University in the Philippines
Aside from the esteemed Catanduanes State University right here in Virac, the Philippines has 1,975 colleges and universities, including 112 state universities and colleges — not to mention 121 local…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
The Love We Choose
The Gospel we heard on Palm Sunday confronts us with a scene filled with blood, violence, deceit, and death on a cross. At first glance, it appears to be a…
LETTER: Bo Rodulfo:
TESDA policies, TUPAD need major rethink
TESDA and some government poverty alleviation programs need a major policy rethink. TESDA’s current policies are inadvertently costing the government millions. We see a significant lack of efficiency–for instance, many…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATORY POWER
quasi-judicial or administrative adjudicatory power is the power by administrative agencies to hear and determine questions of fact to which the legislative policy is to apply and to decide in…
Bryce McIntyre:
Social Media Fuel Growing Fake News Crisis in the Philippines
Catandunganon readers of Facebook recently were notified of the death of Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. This undoubtedly came as a relief to some, seeing as how Netanyahu is subject to…
Sacerdos in Aeternum (a priest forever) | Rev. Fr. Rommel M. Arcilla:
A Hope That Weeps, A God Who Raises
In last Sunday’s Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, we were given one of the most moving and deeply human scenes in all of Scripture: Jesus standing before the…
NON EXCUSAT | Atty. Rene John M. Velasco:
VOLUNTARY SURRENDER
The Revised Penal Code (Act No. 3815), particularly Article 13, paragraph 7, considers as a mitigating circumstance the scenario where the offender voluntarily surrender himself to a person in authority…
Bryce McIntyre:
Whatever Happened to the Philippines’ Economy?
The Philippines’ economy has seen big changes since the 1950s, evolving from one of Asia’s most promising to a service-dominated system relying mainly on consumption, remittances, and outsourcing. This was…