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Friday, May 16, 2025

Accents: Sense and Sensibility — and Service

By JULIA CARREON-LAGOC THE San Antonio – San Nicolas Elementary School (SASNES) in the municipality of Oton has reached a milestone, and a centennial jubilee...

Rural Update: Entry of foreigners in PH

BY JOHNNY NOVERA TWO major policy moves approved by our government will bring into the country unrestricted entry of foreigners. Will the new policies be good for us? They are: First, welcoming US troops to have wider access to Philippine...

People Powwow: When a sick seaman becomes ‘fit to work’

By HERBERT VEGO DOES it happen in real life that a sick overseas seaman gets a “fit to work” certification from a shipping agency? If...

People Powwow: K-12, an anachronistic DepEd program

By HERBERT VEGO AS I was writing this yesterday, Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro was expected at the Nueva Valencia High School in...

Faith, Hope, Charity: ‘Growth and development’

BY IKE SEÑERES MANY words in the English language would seem to be synonymous with each other, but they are actually not. Take the case of...

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...