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Read Janelle Manahan’s reply-affidavit My exclusive – by Raïssa Robles Left to die, Janelle Manahan summoned all her will and strength to text her family for help. In this gripping eyewitness account of her own attempted murder and the slaying of her live-in partner Ramgen Revilla, young aspiring model-actress Janelle Manahan narrates the events that changed her life [...]
Read her signed counter-affidavit By Raïssa Robles Ramona Revilla is the only other living witness – besides girlfriend Janelle Manahan – to the murder of Ramgen Revilla on October 28, 2011. She submitted a 13-page counter-affidavit to the Philippine consulate in Ankara, Turkey last November 24. It is understandably short on details since the police has tagged her as an [...]
My exclusive By Raïssa Robles When Senator Antonio Trillanes was in detention for a capital crime, he was banned from using the Internet and mobile phone by a regional trial court judge. Trillanes appealed the ban but the government of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo successfully blocked this, as well as his request to physically attend Senate sessions. That was [...]
By Raïssa Robles Some were surprised to see Vice-President Jejomar Binay on the same side of the political fence as President Benigno Aquino III in trying to prosecute ex-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for electoral sabotage. Has Binay forgotten that just a month ago, Aquino embarrassed him publicly by announcing his rejection of Binay’s recommendation to bury Marcos with military honors [...]
By Raïssa Robles I was debating with myself whether to write about this. Sleep on it and wait for more developments, my hubby Alan who is my de facto editor, advised me. And so I did. I’m glad I did. Because Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. did a most unusual thing this Saturday. He agreed to be interviewed by [...]
Let’s not forget what happened when he was the anti-illegal drugs champ By Raïssa Robles I’m watching with fascination as Senator Vicente Sotto III reinvents himself – this time as THE opponent of women’s reproductive health rights. Still, let’s not forget how he used another hot button issue to propel himself to political prominence, so much so that [...]
Because his vacation pics show otherwise By Raïssa Robles Migz Zubiri claims he didn’t cheat newly-seated Senator Koko Pimentel. “Zubiri looked relaxed and happy after withdrawing his poll counter-protest against rival Koko Pimentel and resigning from the Senate,” Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Neal Cruz wrote recently. The very picture of an innocent man, Mig Zubiri was. Ok. Then Neal [...]
And why Bongbong Marcos is now a senator By Raissa Robles By having the dictator Ferdinand Marcos buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani, the Marcos clan will be able to erase his sordid and wicked past and have him declared a hero. Then Senator Bongbong Marcos will run for President five years from now and package himself as – of [...]
By Raïssa Robles Senate graft investigations are tedious to cover because they often take hours and hours and are hard to follow. And so I have taken to recording the important probes so I can listen to them long afterward to catch the nuances of what was being said. Alan suggested that for the purpose of historical record and understanding, [...]
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