Private Prison Facility for Public Menace?

A privately-owned and managed jail facility in the Philippines? It could actually happen after Megawide Construction Corp. said it was interested in taking part in a US$ 1.1 billion government tender to build and maintain a prison north of the capital.

The tender, launched earlier on March 2015, is part of the government's efforts to fix a dilapidated prison system that is the fourth most overcrowded in the world, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS).

LGUs Need To Support Project NOAH

By this time, Philippines' disaster planning officials should have a pretty good idea of what is coming their way when a storm makes a landfall. They knew that storm surges propelled by winds of up to 315 kilometers per hour could sweep across low-lying areas and pose a significant threat to life and property.

The problem, though, is that people on the ground weren’t familiar with what a storm surge entailed. In all, more than 6,300 people perished in Typhoon Haiyan, most of them killed by storm surges.

Demand Will Continue for Skinny Models

Halyley Pheylan’s article in Yahoo! Style claims that the modelling industry is changing by hiring more blacks, biracial, Asian, transgendered and not skinny models. Well, she couldn’t be more wrong.

Everything should be put in the proper context first. The modelling industry is not here to represent the society’s diverse spectrum of beauty. It is here to represent what the majority of the population wants and at the same time generate sales. This means, it will continue to favourably employ thin and white teenage girls that epitomize high-end beauty.

Rapist Preying on Cows Finally Caught

If you think that only women and children need protection from male sexual predators, then think again. A man was arrested last 10 March 2015 after he was caught in the act of sexually assaulting a cow in Barangay Biga Dos, Silang, Cavite, Philippines.

Silang police said 46-year-old Andy Loyola was caught around 5:00 A.M. sexually molesting a cow, which was initially reported by its owner, Rustico Carlo, as missing.

Amal Clooney Has No Business Defending GMA

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney just doesn't have any business interfering with the Philippine judicial system. Instead of trying to defend the case she filed before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) for and on behalf of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, she should have taken the case of the victims who were defrauded by the rich families of Arroyo.

According to STAR columnist Carmen Pedrosa said Clooney, wife of Hollywood star George Clooney, was able to present before the UN body the case of Arroyo, in hospital arrest without bail despite her frail health and the weak evidence on the plunder complaint filed against her.