Opinion and Commentary

Ledesma: Reversals of Fortune

November 25, 2016, 12:00 am

In 2009, then Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights, Leila De Lima, commenced with the investigation of alleged extra-judicial killings in Davao City. She ordered the closure of an important road fronting Hotel Mandaya in Davao City. The hotel was to be the venue of her four-month probe of… Read More

Ledesma: Standing ovation

November 23, 2016, 12:00 am

I went on a week-long hiatus from writing and opted to watch the unfolding drama and listen to the din of protests surrounding the burial of the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng Mga Bayani. But that is not all what I did. I too watched our 71-year-old President… Read More