TACLOBAN CITY - A yet-to-be-known individual from Samar province surrendered several assorted high-powered firearms to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG-8) Thursday (December 24). The firearms are believed to have been used in several killings and shooting incidents in the provin
SunStar April 05, 2021 THE Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday, April 5, 2021, implemented a major revamp due to the upcoming retirement of several senior officials from the service.
PNP spokesperson Brigadier General Ildebrandi Usana said Major General Emmanuel Luis Licup, Directorate for Comptrollership (DC) head, was placed on a non-duty status and was transferred to the Office of the Chief PNP (OCPNP) ahead of his retirement on Friday, April 9.
Licup, a member of the Philippine Military Class of 1987, served as the regional director of Police Regional Office-Mimaropa (Mindoro Oriental and Occidental, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) and Police Regional Office 9 before he was designated as head of the Directorate for Operations and eventually as DC chief.
After the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,
you heard variations of this line: “This is not who we are.” On Inauguration Day, you heard variations of this line: “Now is a time for unity.”
Not so fast, say Bates social scientists who spoke on Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Bates.
The idea that “this isn’t who we are,” that “white supremacy and democracy have not been in fundamental contest for at least the past 150 years, is just a dangerous misconception,” said Assistant Professor of History Andrew Baker.
Assistant Professor of History Andrew Baker (center) teaches “Black Resistance in U.S. History” in 2019. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)