A panel of public prosecutors found probable cause to file murder charges against the person who allegedly hired the gunman and the gunman’s accomplices in the killing of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) dwAR broadcaster Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega.

In its first report on the Manila hostage crisis, the Incident Investigation and Review Committee provides a detailed reconstruction of what happened at the Quirino Grandstand on Aug. 23. Although this report does not contain the committee’s conclusions and recommendations, it is clear from what it says where accountability for the fiasco lies.

I am directing the Armed Forces of the Philippines to stop its Oplan Bantay Laya campaign. This campaign has been proven to be a failure because it did not end the communist insurgency.

In an attempt to undermine the rights of workers to fair conditions, ABS-CBN since early this year has been offering permanent employment to staff in exchange for the withdrawal of labour complaints against management.

A radio journalist has been gunned down in the northern Philippines, the fourth to have been murdered in less than a month and the first under the week-old administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III.

I cannot presume to know the current inner workings of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) but I find it distressing that, except for releasing a statement on June 29, the union has apparently not done much to support and promote the welfare of the dozens of workers of television giant ABS-CBN.

NEW YORK – The Philippine National Bureau of Investigation should immediately investigate the latest killing of a witness to the November 2009 massacre of at least 58 people in Maguindanao province, Mindanao, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the government to act swiftly to protect witnesses and their families.
An unidentified gunman shot and killed Suwaib Upham, …

By Carlos H. Conde
Here are some reasons why the new administration of Benigno S. Aquino III may find a “honeymoon period” with the press a welcome idea.
On the day Aquino took his oath of office as the 15th president of Philippines, his executive secretary, Paquito Ochoa, issued Memorandum Circular No. 1 declaring vacant all office headed by presidential appointees. …

MANILA — On the seventh month of the Ampatuan massacre, New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation to immediately investigate the latest killing of a witness.
The massacre in November 2009 killed at least 58 people, mostly journalists, in Maguindanao province, Mindanao.
Suwaib Upham, a witness to the Maguindanao killings known publicly as “Jesse,” was …