Rural Update: Shift NAIA landings to Iloilo urgent
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
LAST week, we wrote in our column (Re-direct Int’l Flights...) of the heavy air traffic and dangerous situation of landings and takeoffs at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) such that even the old Terminal IV...
People Powwow: For whom does CHED work?
By HERBERT VEGO
THE officials of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) want us to believe that they are there to protect us parents and...
Accents: Remembering Romeo Capalla
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
TWO months after Romeo Capalla was felled by an assassin’s bullet, March 15, 2014 to be exact, I yield my space to...
People Powwow: Post-work disease may still be work-related
By HERBERT VEGO
WHY are seamen limited to a contractual tenure of 12 months or less?
For one reason, they need to enjoy vacation with their...
Viewpoints: It depends
BY ABP. OPSCAR CRUZ
THERE is nothing absolute as everything is relative. Something is true or false depending on the given circumstances.
What is right or...
People Powwow: A PNoy ‘boss’ in Saudi Arabia
BY HERBERT VEGO
THE Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) always reserves scholarship slots for “students in a hurry,” according to Regional Director Toni...
Faith, Hope, Charity: Social franchising
BY IKE SEÑERES
I THOUGHT that I had an original idea until I found out that my idea is already happening all over the world, and...
People Powwow: Cooling off on coal power
By HERBERT VEGO
CONGRESSMAN Arcadio Gorriceta (2nd District, Iloilo) waxed ecstatic the other day while briefing us about Palm Concepcion Power Corporation, which has begun constructing...
Accents: Mother – a sweet word to utter
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
MOTHER’s Day is celebrated every second Sunday of May, and one celebration that the years have not erased in my mind’s eye...
Rural Update: Re-direct int’l flights to Iloilo or Negros airports?
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IT is interesting to read the Vision Statement of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), saying that ”by 2016, it will be the leading organization...