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People Powwow

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BY HERBERT VEGO Tracing our Malayan descent THE ongoing visit of President Rodrigo Duterte to Brunei Darussalam brings back to mind the history of our country...

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BY HERBERT VEGO No to abolition of senior citizens’ privileges ADDING insult to injury! This was the phrase that shaped out in my mind on reading...

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BY HERBERT VEGO YESTERDAY, I spent time breezing through YouTube trailers of the movie version of the controversial Inferno novel by Dan Brown, hoping to...

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BY HERBERT VEGO Miners hit back at Sec Gina Lopez THE 10 metal mining companies suspended by Secretary Regina Paz “Gina” Lopez of the Department of...

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BY HERBERT VEGO What’s wrong with TAMA? IF you don’t know what TAMA stands for, you are not alone. Like most Filipinos, you don’t know because...

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BY HERBERT VEGO DENR head erred on Semirara THIS corner has nothing personal against Secretary Gina Lopez of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources; we...

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BY HERBERT VEGO An enigma called Gina Lopez “A LITTLE learning is a dangerous thing.” This familiar quotation from Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), which first saw...

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BY HERBERT VEGO Much ado about Treñas’ ‘redistricting’ bill READING between the lines, one sees why the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Iloilo City passed a resolution...

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BY HERBERT VEGO OVER coffee at Hotel del Rio, this writer sat with a group of habitués singing praises to President Rody Duterte for his...

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BY HERBERT VEGO “DON’T you eat fish?” It was my friend Rene Tagamolila on the phone. He had read my column about “going vegetarian” to...