WORM’S EYE VIEW: Fear of jail
BY ROMMEL YNION
LOYALTY, cut down to size, has become just a word bereft of any meaning, used more often than not as a tool...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Family farms
BY IKE SEÑERES
FAMILIES and farms have been around for centuries, but it seems that it is only in recent times that “family farms” as legal...
RURAL UPDATE: More on preparing for the APEC
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column of July 29, 2014, we talked about Iloilo’s selection as host of two meetings from 10 member-countries in the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled from September...
PEOPLE POWWOW: What a party-list for seafarers should do
By HERBERT VEGO
WE have received text messages asking: Is the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) a party-list representation? We are not surprised by...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Superboy restless in his grave?
BY ROMMEL YNION
OUR eyes glued to the boob tube as P-Noy dead-panned his delivery of his State of the Nation Address, we were sure...
ACCENTS: SONA, SOPA or SONAT-TA?
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
AS a fourth grader in the San Antonio-San Nicolas Elementary School (SASNES), my alma mater, I recall how the teacher would repudiate...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Recalling the ‘8-11’ Guimaras oil spill
By HERBERT VEGO
WHEN my friend Noel Torres told me the other day that Mayor Emmanuel Galila of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras had written a letter...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Delusions of grandeur
BY ROMMEL YNION
WHAT is alarming now is not the voice of the people which in pre-PCOS era, was purported to be the voice of...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Eden in the city
BY IKE SEÑERES
IT’S an old story that I still remember.
Many years ago, the people of Taiwan planted every parcel of vacant land in their...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A lesson from Benjamin Franklin
By HERBERT VEGO
ANYBODY who has seen a hundred-dollar bill knows how he looked like in his time. It’s where the portrait of Ben Franklin...