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Friday, May 16, 2025

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...

Viewpoints: And then there were three

ABP. OSCAR CRUZ THE break is over. The Holy Week has ended. The horrible looking effigies were burned. The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement was signed. The...

People Powwow: Reminiscing the good old days

HERBERT VEGO YOU must have heard it said that the young look forward to the future while the old, back to the past. In a...

Viewpoints: Forever and ever

ABP. OSCAR CRUZ ABOVE mentioned are three words that are rather familiar, especially among Christians all over the globe. Most of them — if not...

Viewpoints: What defense cooperation?

BY ABP. OSCAR CRUZ IT was a surprise to the people of the Philippines in general – just like magic. There was nothing long before...

People Powwow: A chief cook fights for his final pay

By HERBERT VEGO IS an indisposed seaman who quits within his first week of work entitled to disability benefits? Ramon Caro knew he was entitled to...