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PEOPLE POWWOW | Tobing Javier, commissioner from Antique

BY HERBERT VEGO Tuesday, June 27, 2017   “WHAT the human mind can conceive and believe, the human mind can achieve.” This familiar quote from book author Napoleon...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Distrust in banks logical

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, June 25, 2017!      IN THIS month of June, two Philippine Banks – the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Banco de...

PEOPLE POWWOW | A free thinker goes beyond religion

BY HERBERT VEGO Thursday, June 22, 2017 OVER lunch in a restaurant the other day, I enjoyed a powwow with colleagues Florence Hibionada, Jun Lojero and...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Why Father’s Day?

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, June 18, 2017     TODAY, I don’t have to be a psychic to predict that friends and relatives would greet or text me,...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Martial law unneeded in Marawi

BY HERBERT VEGO Thursday, June 15, 2017 SENATOR Tito Sotto, an all-time presidential defender, has asked “trolls” opposing martial law to go to war-torn Marawi City. In...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Time travel would ‘enrich’ the poor  

Ni Ime Sornito Time travel would ‘enrich’ the poor IF TIME travel were possible, would going back to the year 1960 make today’s poor wage earners...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Looking through Mabilog’s political gambit

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, June 11, 2017 METHINKS that Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog had thought long and hard before resigning from the Liberal Party (LP). What...

PEOPLE POWWOW | A lament on higher cost of college education

BY HERBERT VEGO Thursday, June 8, 2017   SCHOOL year 2017-2018 has opened with an unpleasant bang: the tuition hike that the Commission on Higher Education...

PEOPLE POWWOW | A June groom walks down memory lane

BY HERBERT L. VEGO Tuesday, June 6, 2017 WHENEVER a niece or any young girl seeks my advice about marrying in June so she could be...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Regardless of motive, it was terrorism

BY HERBERT VEGOGO Sunday, June 4, 2017     IT WAS around 1 a.m. on Friday when I woke up because of the urge to pee. I should have slept on...