The Dengvaxia dilemma
TO allow or not
to allow?
That is the
question bugging the Department of Health (DOH) vis-a-vis the call of its
former head, now congresswoman Janet Garin (1st...
Still waiting for PECO to go
WHEN Panay
Electric Co. (PECO) lost its 25-year franchise to distribute electricity in
Iloilo City upon expiration on Jan. 19 this year, we begged for a...
Hypocrisy in death penalty
THE
President wants Congress to pass a death penalty law for plunder and “heinous
crimes”. But does he have the moral ascendancy to push it?
Capital
punishment is...
If there were no inflation…
IF INFLATION were “fiction” and prices of
goods have remained constant – taking off from the year 1960 -- the Philippines
would have been an ideal...
Leveling up with Enrique K. Razon, Jr.
THE THIRD richest man in the country, Enrique K. Razon Jr., might have heard of the “leveling up” strategy of Mayor Jerry P. Treñas....
Missing the river and the rolling hills
TWO
PLACES in my home province of Antique bring back pleasant childhood memories.
One is the “split river” where my elementary-school classmate Joe Escartin and
I used...
Planting evidence is never fun
TO
ALLOW, or not to allow?
That
is the question hounding the administration vis-à-vis the July 11 resolution of
the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) calling the...
Appeasing the elderly
OVER coffee
at Hotel del Rio the other day, I confided to my friend Rod Jarumahum an
“embarrassing” incident: I had met by chance – and...
What does PECO hope to gain?
SHOULDN’T
Panay Electric Co. (PECO) have gone directly to the Supreme Court instead of
the Regional Trial Court (RTC-Branch 209) in Mandaluyong City to question the
constitutionality...
Learning from a song
THE song People made
two singers famous – American Barbra Streisand and our own Nora Aunor. The song
as recorded by Streisand broke records in 1964.
It was also...