Surviving hypertension
BY HERBERT VEGO
HAVING survived a number of bouts with hypertension in the past six years, I have learned to cope with the disease and...
The evolution of Iloilo City in brief
BY HERBERT VEGO
THANK God it was Friday morning and a holiday in Iloilo City when we drove through light traffic and walked to Freedom Grandstand to...
Revisiting Agot Isidro
BY HERBERT VEGO
ACTRESS Agot Isidro, everybody remembers, went viral in the early days of the Rodrigo Duterte presidency when she labeled him “psychopath.” That...
The pledges to save Boracay are still pledges
BY HERBERT VEGO
THERE was no fun in my last visit to Boracay, not with more new buildings still rising along narrow roads. Those trappings...
No to BBL ‘resurrection’
BY HERBERT VEGO
Thursday, August 17, 2017
NOW you see it, now you don’t. It’s the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) that has reappeared in the...
PEOPLE POWWOW
BY HERBERT VEGO
Losing Dad to cigarettes
UNDER Executive Order 26, which President Rodrigo Duterte signed May 16 but announced only last Thursday, smoking is already...
PEOPLE POWWOW | Reminiscing our New Zealand tour
BY HERBERT VEGO
Thursday, July 6, 2017
ONE YEAR ago between June and July 2016, we – including Danny Fajardo, Rodolfo Jarumahum and this writer –...
PEOPLE POWWOW | ‘Kill, kill, kill’ is the ‘solution’ worse than the problem
BY HERBERT VEGO
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
WHILE campaigning for the May 2016 presidential election, then Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte vowed to eliminate crime by...
PEOPLE POWWOW | Duterte’s propaganda methodology
BY HERBERT VEGO
Sunday, July 2, 2017
ONE YEAR has passed since Rodrigo Duterte assumed office as the President of the Philippines who would effect change....
PEOPLE POWWOW | For whom the trolls troll
BY HERBERT VEGO
Thursday, June 29, 2017
ONE of the many old meanings of the noun troll is that it is a bunch of ropes with...