Soda brouhaha
DID YOU know the meaning behind this advertising slogan back in 1982 – “Coke is it!”?
For sure, millennials or the Generation Y know...
The ‘storms’ faced by decarbonization
MENTION the word decarbonization, and you will be ushered into its significant definition: reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
In this modern era,...
Martin goaded: ‘Keep it 100’
FORMER Speaker Martin Romualdez is now detained at the New Quezon City Jail Male Dormitory in Payatas. He is facing a P7.4-billion plunder charge...
Confusing threshold, ‘political lip-sync’ in impeachment trial
AS THE controversial Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte is about to enter its fourth month in October, Filipinos seem to be...
Power collusion or asleep at the switch?
THE POWER crisis in the Visayas is getting worse by the day. The daily rotational brownouts in Cebu, Panay and Negros have become intolerable.
Cursing...
A ‘filthy reality’
THE HINOBA-AN District Hospital, located at the southernmost tip of Negros Occidental, is new. It was completed only late last year.
Since January 2, the...
A test for Sharon Garin
HERE they are again — the rotating brownouts in Negros, Panay, and across the Visayas Region. Pestering. Irritating. Frustrating.
Negrenses, Bacolodnons and Ilonggos keep venting...
Showing cards; walking on eggs
THE Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) and Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) have long been controversial public utilities in Bacolod City.
CENECO deals with electricity;...
The missing links in the Moises Padilla quarry raid
THE SUCCESSFUL raid on an alleged illegal sand-and-gravel quarry operation along the Binalabagan River in Hacienda Bag-o, Barangay Crossing Magallon, Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental,...
Thirst and tears for land
FORTY-TWO farming families. Seventy-one hectares of agricultural land subject to distribution under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Twelve years of waiting.
Alas, there was...