Pet Melliza

Hole of Justice by Peter G. Jimenea On Narco-Politics US observers claim that narco-politics will affect the elections in this country. That is not news but history. Even Pres. Richard Nixon received millions of dollars from the Chinese Triads as campaign fund when he ran for president. What former Detective James Badey of Arlington (Virginia) Gang Task Force is saying about the Triads: “ The Chinese have the potential of making the Mafia in America look like a fraternity of wimps.” That's it, lot of Chinese Triads are suspects to have already migrated here. Politics of drugs in the Philippines can be traced back to Martial Law years when Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, ordered the execution of Lim Seng, a Chinese national convicted of drug trafficking. His five other companions, however, were exonerated on intervention of some influential persons in the government. What follows in the succeeding administrations were the implication of some national figures in the illegal drug business. ...

The Beekeeper BY PET MELLIZA Virginia Palanca-Santiago’s exercise of raw power (16) Our neighbor Gerry Escatron nearly lost his life due to the man who sports the title “doctor”. He had diabetes, his right leg was swelling but the usurper thought it was s simple infection and prescribed heavy doses of anti-biotics. His condition worsened; the gangrene crept up to his thigh but the quack doctor, a public official of the town of Igbaras, 40 kilometers south of Iloilo City, continued to saturate his body with anti-biotics. A timely intervention by Mayor Jaime Esmeralda, a real doctor of medicine, saved Gerry’s life. He referred him to the Western Visayas Regional Medical Center. Gerry’s lower right was amputated it was necessary to save his life. This usurper of the title “MD”, incidentally, is a pillar of the animal called “people’s graftwatch” whose members are like him, charlatans masquerading as graftbusters. None of these charlatans, led by a perpetual bar flunker and a cleric whose ...