By Atty. Crispin Caday Lozano When you file your bankruptcy papers, a bankruptcy estate is created that is administered by the trustee designated by the U.S. Department of Justice.  The trustee is the representative of all your creditors in the process. While the bankruptcy process is in progress, he takes control of all the property in your bankruptcy estate.  However, the trustee won’t actually take physical control of the property.  Most, if not all, of your property wi...

By PERRY DIAZ The events leading to the appointment of Vice President Leni Robredo as Drug Czar were like a high-stakes poker game.  When President Rodrigo Duterte, apparently annoyed at Leni’s criticism of Duterte’s handling of the bloody anti-illegal drugs campaign – she said the “War on Drugs” wasn’t working -- Duterte dared her to run the campaign herself.  “Let’s see if you can handle it,” Duterte told Leni on October 28, 2019. VP Leni hesitated and did not accept ...

By ELPIDIO R. ESTIOKO The impeachment proceedings is on its second week and citizens started weighing  in their perspectives in the historic public hearings leveled against US President Donald Trump in a process I call the people’s court.  The US Congress went public building  their case to the American people that President Trump violated the US constitution by committing impeachable act or actions unlikely for a US president to do which are violations of the Constitut...

By GREG B. MACABENTA I have been closely following the TV news coverage of the US congressional hearings on the possible impeachment of President Donald Trump and I am reminded of Harry Belafonte’s song, Man Piaba, which goes this way: “When I was a lad of three-foot-three, certain questions occurred to me; So I asked my father quite seriously to tell me the story ‘bout the bird and bee. He stammered and he stuttered pathetically and this is what he said to me: “H...