PEOPLE POWWOW: 40 years of âlawyeringâ for overseas Filipino seamen
By HERBERT VEGO
WHY has this column repeatedly played up labor cases handled by the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) under maritime lawyer Pedro...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Mr. Labada
BY ROMMEL YNION
NO, we are not yakking about Injap Siaâs laundry shop but about a money-laundering haven simply called Iloilo City. Itâs pretty obvious,...
ACCENTS: ImagineâŠthe world will live as one
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
I ALWAYS like to listen to John Lennonâs âImagineâ whenever, wherever, howsoever it is sung. And thanks to YouTube, I got my...
PEOPLE POWWOW: MIWD chair optimistic butâŠ
By HERBERT VEGO
OUR good friend Dr. Danilo Encarnacion, chairman of the board of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), waxed optimistic the other day...
WORMâS EYE VIEW: Nothing to fear but fear itself
BY ROMMEL YNION
TO protect us from the unknown, nature has endowed us with fear which has been either our friend or foe, depending on...
PEOPLE POWWOW: More on the most expensive swimming pool
By HERBERT VEGO
YOU must have noted that in his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) the other day, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III...
WORMâS EYE VIEW:Â I am Iloilo
BY ROMMEL YNION
JUXTAPOSED together, âamâ and âvisionâ equate to âambitionâ. Quite tricky, isnât it? Actually, it is just what it is. Words are like...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: The other side of food security
BY IKEÂ SEĂERES
MORE often than not, we tend to define food security in terms of quantity and not in terms of quality. That is the...
RURAL UPDATE: APEC Summit
JOHNNY NOVERA
THE front page of Panay News on Saturday bannered the selection of Iloilo City and Boracay as among the venues of the Asia-Pacific...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Fisherman wins fight versus giant
BY HERBERT VEGO
IT could be a modern version of the fight between the boy David and the giant Goliath. Here, itâs an ordinary fisherman...