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The missing case
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 9, 2026 - 12:00am
On June 4, 2026, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), through its Board of Governors, released a statement on what constitutes a quorum for the Senate to conduct official business. It said the June 3 Senate...
Let the process work
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - June 2, 2026 - 12:00am
In the span of a few weeks, the Senate gave us chaos and confusion in its halls, senators in tears, a walkout that stopped a proposal being rammed through, and a public quarrel over whether members should be allowed...
Garbage: A test of people-centered governance
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 26, 2026 - 12:00am
Garbage, or more precisely solid waste management, is Cebu City’s single biggest community-level problem today. Traffic congestion was once widely thought to be the city’s foremost problem, but not ...
Hollowing out
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 19, 2026 - 12:00am
In their 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt warn that 21st-century democracies rarely collapse through revolutions or military coups; they...
Beyond the summit hall (Part 2)
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 12, 2026 - 12:00am
In the first part of this piece, I shared the discussion from a panel I sat through on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during last Friday’s ASEAN Community Town Hall, a civil society-organized forum...
Widening the ASEAN conversation
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 5, 2026 - 12:00am
Cebu is gearing up for the Philippines’ hosting of the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit from Wednesday, May 6, to Friday, May 8, 2026. The Philippines assumed the ASEAN chairmanship...
Binaliw: The need for clarity amid outrage
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - May 2, 2026 - 12:00am
Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera revealed in recent media interviews that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has allowed the limited reopening of the private landfill facility in Barangay Binaliw...
Sick rumors from sick minds
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - April 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Social media had a field day last week parrying the fake news spread by many die-hard Duterte supporters about the health of the president.
Oil crisis’ silver lining
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - April 7, 2026 - 12:00am
The Supreme Court announced over a week ago that it would hold its April summer sessions in its En Banc Session Hall in Manila instead of, as is traditional, in its summer house in Baguio City due to rising fuel...
Relief and resilience
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 31, 2026 - 12:00am
Even if the conflict in the Middle East shifts from physical war to a war of words and wounded pride among its main protagonists, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s apparent desire not to appear weak before...
Gobal crisis, then and now
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 28, 2026 - 12:00am
“Perceptions of a global crisis have been rampant for over a decade.
Rethinking the old workweek
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 10, 2026 - 12:00am
The pandemic, not so long ago, introduced us to the terms “asynchronous” and “synchronous” as online modalities for conducting work, forums, or classes.
From my students, a warning
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - March 3, 2026 - 12:00am
As I was about to write this piece in a restaurant inside a mall, I noticed a food delivery rider watching on his phone a clip of the former president in what appeared to be a pro-Duterte reel. This is not the first...
The spell that led us to the ICC
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - February 28, 2026 - 12:00am
During his opening remarks last Monday at the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber’s confirmation of charges hearing in “The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte
A live lesson in justice at The Hague
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - February 24, 2026 - 12:00am
As I write this, the nation awaits the confirmation hearing in the case “The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte”, scheduled to begin on February 23, 2026, and to run for four days this week.
A public hearing in Cebu on political dynasties
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - February 17, 2026 - 12:00am
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms will hold a public consultation on anti-political dynasty measures this Thursday, February 19, 2026, at 9:00 A.M. at the Performing Arts Hall, University of the...
2026: The make or break year
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - February 7, 2026 - 12:00am
I had the chance to meet Ronald Llamas in a hotel in Cebu City last January 20, 2026, at a roundtable discussion with members of the local media on current political and social issues. Llamas is a noted political...
Ma’am Helen, our mentor
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - February 3, 2026 - 12:00am
I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family and friends of my former college teacher, retired associate professor Helen Villejo Bañez, who died on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at the age of 86....
Bail and the burden of weak accountability
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - January 27, 2026 - 12:00am
There are two recent developments that bode well for the future of the Philippine criminal justice system.
Media commandments in the age of AI
by Atty. Ian Vincent Manticajon - January 20, 2026 - 12:00am
The University of the Philippines Cebu opens the second semester this week.
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