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Thursday, September 3, 2026

WORM’S EYE VIEW: The House of Ill-Repute

BY ROMMEL YNION AFTER junking the three impeachment raps against the president, Congress should have just kept its mouth shut instead of engaging in a...

ACCENTS: Grandmothering

BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC BEING here on the other side of the globe — in what others call Uncle Sam country — without full grasp of...

PEOPLE POWWOW: With or without EDCA…

By HERBERT L. VEGO THIS corner believes that with or without the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States, the latter...

VIEWPOINTS: Impeachment

BY ABP. OSCAR CRUZ “IN case the verified complaint or resolution of impeachment is filed by at least one-third of all the members of the...

PEOPLE POWWOW: Cheaper med law ‘lifeless’ under PNoy

By HERBERT VEGO IN his four years in office, has President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III beefed up the six-year-old Cheaper Medicines Act of 2008? We...

WORM’S EYE VIEW: Change

BY ROMMEL YNION DO we need change? Yes. I’m glad Filipinos have felt the urgency of change. But what exactly is change to them? And what exactly...

FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Redefining human development measures

BY IKE SEÑERES DR. Gil Santos wrote: “To me it is understandable why the Philippines was not included in the countries listed by the United Nations...

RURAL UPDATE: Keep low budget; attract new business or expansion

BY JOHNNY NOVERA IT appears that even the business sector that originally opposed the increase in real estate taxes (RET) by the Iloilo City Hall...

PEOPLE POWWOW: An accident in Venice

By HERBERT VEGO HAVING just finished his nautical course a few years ago, Dominador Alcabaza considered himself lucky to have qualified for employment on a...

WORM’S EYE VIEW: Me-first World

BY ROMMEL YNION MAN is just a living thing on a planet that is part of a solar system in a galaxy afloat in an...