The Thinker
DURING my first visit to Singapore last week, my host and niece Cheryl – a certified public accountant thereat – took me to Sentosa...
Rizal sought religious freedom
THE OTHER DAY, I found time reading the reproduced letters of Dr. Jose Rizal written during his exile in Dapitan.
An April 4, 1893 letter,...
Inflation pa more in the ‘ber’ months
THIS is a sequel to our previous column, where we tackled monetary inflation as the culprit behind the erosion of the wage earner‘s buying...
If inflation were fiction…
IF INFLATION were nothing more than air in a tire to ride on, then prices of goods today would have been as good as...
No fun in foreign employment but…
WHILE on the road in a new Grab car in Metro Manila, I asked the driver, “Is this car yours?”
“Yes,” he answered, “katas ng...
Confusing footnotes on Phil-China-US relations
THERE was a time when President Rodrigo Duterte sounded very angry because the Filipino fishermen’s catch was confiscated by China’s coastguards at Panatag Shoal...
It happened on Sept. 23, 1972
IN A SENSE it’s true that a lie repeated too often turns into a historical truth, as in the ingrained date of the declaration...
In defense of cremation
DURING the interment of the ashes of the late Panay News founder Daniel Gumban Fajardo in a columbarium, I wondered whether he had asked to...
Obstacles to the Bangsamoro Organic Law
IT’S NO done deal yet. There is not much rejoicing in Mindanao over the enactment of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), pending a plebiscite...
Danny Fajardo died in action
WE sent off our friend Danny Fajardo, founder of Panay News, to his resting place with a heavy heart yesterday.
It was not easy to...