Deadly maybes
MY PEACEFUL Sunday at church on May 4 was abruptly shattered by news of a deadly car crash at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
Honed by experience, honeyed by accomplishments
AUDACIOUS leadership: What is this?
Many references — including the now-ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence (AI) — use similar words to define audacious leadership: boldness, innovation, inventiveness,...
Not forever idiots
WHY ONLY now?This is the very question many are asking following the latest pronouncement from the Department of Agriculture (DA) about selling rice in...
Beyond toughness
ON WEDNESDAY, April 23, I had the opportunity to cover Vice President Sara Duterte’s visit to Negros Island. She first visited Canlaon City in...
A beautiful coincidence
THE TRAGIC road accident on Good Friday in Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City has sparked a public communication battle — what could be described as...
Wash money
WHAT is wash money? Is it flooding Negros Island right now? While this may seem like a hypothetical question, it could be closer to...
Behind the rumbling sound of Kanlaon
THE STILL-RESTIVE Mount Kanlaon on Negros Island once again made its presence felt on April 8, erupting and sending plumes of volcanic ash into...
A hailable pact for Silay’s squatter communities
ON APRIL 4, Negros Power Corporation (Negros Power) and the city government of Silay, northern Negros Occidental, signed a landmark Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)...
A ‘cry’ for Tañon Strait
SO THE PUBLIC may know.There is a pressing environmental concern that Negrenses must not ignore—the reported boron contamination allegedly polluting the waters of Tañon...
Feeling stung
FOR THE past several months, if you’ve been following the House of Representatives’ Quad-Committee hearings on the war on drugs and other issues —...