Our new Pope Francis who is known for being pro-poor is also solid hard against the corrupt. In his sermons, he lashed out at those who give to the church but who steal from the public. His formula for punishment, citing the passage from...
DAVAO OCCIDENTAL --- A new province is born in Davao. The plebiscite that coincided with last Monday’s barangay elections overwhelmingly supported the carving out of DAVAO OCCIDENTAL from mother DAVAO DEL SUR. To compose the new province of Davao Occidental are the southernmost...
GRIM REMINDERS? -- Someone up there is just reminding us again through calamities -- natural or otherwise -- including man-made ones. We have a long string already: Luneta hostaging, Sendong, Pablo, Zamboanga siege, PDAF & DAP, floods everywhere, ambuscades, killings. And now this Bohol earthquake....
At the rate our politicians are getting publicly clobbered lately, we now don’t see them too often in the public view. Suddenly, they are all smeared. And they appear sparse nowadays. Most of today’s publicly known leaders are now insulted, attacked and demonized. The usual...
It will take a long time to clean up the mess left by the Zamboanga incident. And to be able to know how to effectively do this, one must understand that the siege was not done solely to create trouble. Or to burn and bleed...
I remember the phrase "QUO VADIS". The old Romans used this in asking "where to?" or "where are you going?" It was popularized by a movie title bearing those two words in the 60's. I now ask...
I am writing this article earlier this week but by the time this will come out in print on Sunday, I do hope that the Zamboanga incident is...
FLOODS --- For the first time, almost one half of Metro Manila was submerged in water these last few days. EVERYTHING was paralyzed. No work, no banks, no stores, no shops, no transport -- everything at a standstill. Alarming because this is happening all over...
RICE SHORTAGE? A head of the rice traders association feared that the country will suffer a rice shortage very soon due to the depletion of the buffer stock in the "palengke" and in the warehouses of the National Food Authority. I personally met and talked...
WHEN WE DIE --I read somewhere that BILL GATES, of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world told friends in one meeting: “When I die, I do not want to be the richest person in the cemetery!” This is the reason why he is...
