Here are the stories of The Manila Times for Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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READ: ICC won’t drop case vs Duterte – VP Sara
VICE President Sara Duterte has already accepted that the case against her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, will continue at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The older Duterte is jailed at The Hague for three counts of crimes against humanity due to his war on drugs. The trial has been raffled off to Trial Chamber III and is expected to begin by October at the earliest. In an interview with vlogger Alvin & Tourism on Monday after her visit to her father, Duterte said they have accepted that the case will go into trial soon after the jurisdiction was reached.
READ: A father’s promise kept
Dr. Dante Arevalo Ang, chairman emeritus of The Manila Times, died at the Manila Doctors Hospital at the age of 83. Ang took over the Times on Aug. 8, 2001, as the publisher and chairman of the country’s oldest existing English-language newspaper. His wake is set to be held starting Wednesday at the Manila Memorial Park in Sucat, Parañaque.
READ: Malversation trial vs Revilla begins
THE trial of the malversation through falsification case filed against former senator Bong Revilla and six other people before the Sandiganbayan started on Tuesday. The case stemmed from the alleged ghost project in Pandi, Bulacan. The prosecution presented Myra Torio and Jose Jayson Cruz as witnesses before the Sandiganbayan's Third Division where the case was raffled off. The court's ruling on the bail petitions, including that of Revilla, is expected to be out soon. Most of the accused filed bail petitions and the court conducted a bail hearing on several dates starting April 6, 2026. The court’s ruling on bail was expected soon.
READ: President, Imee have not spoken for almost 3 years
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has confirmed his estrangement from older sister Sen. Imee Marcos, Malacañang said on Tuesday. In a press briefing, Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said the chief executive reacted to the lawmaker’s earlier pronouncement that their relationship is “nonexistent” with the latter distancing herself from her brother and his family.
READ: 38 Filipinos on cruise ship with hantavirus not sick
THE Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said the 38 Filipinos aboard the cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak are not sick. In an interview on Tuesday, DOH spokesman Albert Domingo said there were Filipino crew members on board among more than 100 people on the vessel, which is currently docked in Cabo Verde off the coast of Africa.
BUSINESS: Inflation tops forecasts; balloons to 7.2% in April
SURGING fuel prices, along with increased transport costs, pushed inflation to a three-year high of 7.2 percent in April, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday. The rate — markedly higher than March’s 4.1 percent — blew past the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) estimate of 5.6 to 6.4 percent and the 5.6 percent median in a Manila Times poll of economists. Core inflation, which excludes select food and energy items, rose to 3.9 percent from 3.2 percent in the previous month. The BSP, which last month raised key interest rates in response to rising inflation, said in a statement that it was “committed to fulfilling its primary mandate” of controlling consumer price growth and would “take necessary actions to ensure inflation returns to its 3-percent target within a reasonable time.”
SPORTS: Delos Santos breaks record at IWF World Juniors
FILIPINO weightlifting standout Albert Delos Santos announced his arrival on the world stage in emphatic fashion, breaking the junior world record in the clean and jerk at the IWF World Junior Championships in Ismailia, Egypt. The 19-year-old lifter hoisted 187 kilograms (kg) in the clean and jerk to set a new benchmark in the men’s 71-kg division, eclipsing his own previous record of 185 kg. That lift powered Delos Santos to the gold medal with a dominant total of 326 kg, firmly establishing himself as one of the brightest young prospects in international weightlifting. Delos Santos’ latest feat continues a steady rise in form over the past year. He first made waves after capturing a silver medal in the 2025 Southeast Asian Games, where he lifted 186 kg in the same category — then a record-breaking effort at the time. Just months later, he reset the junior world mark at the IWF World Championships in Peru before surpassing it once more in Egypt.
READ: Opinion and editorial
Rigoberto Tiglao and Fr. Ranhilio Aquino are today’s front page columnists. Tiglao continues making claims about the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte, while Fr. Aquino asks what is to be taught.
Today’s editorial talks about long-term economic measures amid the ongoing war in the Middle East. Read the full version in the paper’s opinion section or listen to the Voice of the Times.
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