The Jolo Chief of Police Vows to Fulfill his Mandate

The Majestic Masjid Tulay Jami dwarfing even the Bud Datu'.

There are always good and bad sides to all things -- the Yin and Yang. Or else, the world is incomplete.

The innate and pristine beauty of Sulu in the southern Philippines has been largely protected because of the negative publicity that Sulu exhibits to the outside world. Rich land developers and investors would not come for fear that their investments would suffer in Sulu.

But keeping Sulu as "peaceful but volatile" as it is will keep us backward and stagnant for a long time. We can not compete with the world's fast evolving modernity. The Arab words are already competing against each other for prosperity. The Tausug are mostly Muslims, too.

How the Law Grinds in Sulu

Will Cocoy Tulawie taste the first rule of law justice in Sulu?

Sulu is always synonymous to a break-down of law and order in governance. No matter how hard the Local Government Units in trying to portray the images of Sulu as "Wow Sulu!", the images that have been painted since the time of the Spanish's failure to conquer Sulu are already indelibly written in the annals of history and in the people's hearts and mind.

It is in Sulu where the disrespect for local authorities is strong. The locals still solve their problems the old way, the way they are trained to do by experience: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a limb for a limb. Barbaric, but so biblical.