PEOPLE POWWOW: A contracted seaman is always presumed ‘fit to work’
BY HERBERT VEGO
WHEN a seaman gets a “fit to work” certification from a shipping agency’s physician but gets seriously sick while on board within...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: That’s good!
BY ROMMEL YNION
YOU have a problem? That’s good!
Haven’t you noticed that everything you have achieved in life is just a product of a problem...
ACCENTS: IFFSM: Appalled and enraged
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
SEPTEMBER 14 as I write this is short of a day in the six-month anniversary of the unsolved murder of Romeo Capalla,...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A misleading indicator of productivity
By HERBERT VEGO
EACH time President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III paints a glowing picture of the country’s “prosperity” because of tuwid na daan, the...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Hallmark of Hilmarc
BY ROMMEL YNION
LONG before this controversy swirled around the overpricing of Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), “No To Corruption” billboards dotted the landscape of Iloilo...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Raul Gonzalez Sr. was also a journalist
By HERBERT VEGO
IN the wake of the death of former Justice secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. Sunday night, we heard Ilonggos from all walks of life reminiscing...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: As I remember him
BY ROMMEL YNION
I CALL it my four o’clock habit. It’s the time I wake up each morning, come hell or high water. It’s as if there...
RURAL UPDATE: Is Iloilo prepared for ASEAN?
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
ON July 29, 2014, we wrote of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit ministerial meetings to be held in Iloilo City in...
FAITH, HOIPE & CHARITY: Agricultural modernization
BY IKE SEÑERES
IN the education sector, the perennial mantra referring to the shortage of resources is the lack of “classrooms, textbooks and teachers.”
In the agricultural...
PEOPLE POWWOW: All is not lost for disabled seaman
BY HERBERT VEGO
HERE’S how a puny, sick ship steward fought and won a legal battle against a giant shipping agency. Let this story inspire...