PEOPLE POWWOW
BY HERBERT VEGO
Time to say ‘goodbye’ to illegal drugs?
NO doubt about it: Despite his “put_ na” and other cusswords, President Rodrigo Duterte remains popular....
PEOPLE POWWOW
BY HERBERT VEGO
Reformed TESDA under Mamondiong
WHAT’S new at the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) under new Director General Guiling “Gene” A. Mamondiong?
“He...
PEOPLE POWWOW
BY HERBERT VEGO
New Lucena ‘politicking’ not the issue
A NEWS item in this paper last Friday echoed the comment of Iloilo Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Liecel...
PEOPLE POWWOW
BY HERBERT VEGO
Going vegetarian
TIME was when I would not eat vegetables. I had no appetite for them. Instead, I devoured meat – especially beef...
PEOPLE POWWOW : BY HERBERT VEGO
BY HERBERT VEGO
Four schools and a congressman
REP. ARCADIO GORRICETA (2nd District, Iloilo) has been in the House for only three years but has done...
PEOPLE POWWOW: An image of PNoy; a homage to Tita Paz
By HERBERT VEGO
THE short speech of President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III before the Filipino-American community at Boston College – recalling the assassination of...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Disabling an able seaman
By HERBERT VEGO
IF this corner has been taking the cudgels for Filipino seamen who have already been deprived of a “future” due to accident,...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Notes on the LTO, LTFRB
By HERBERT VEGO
WE senior citizens recall those days when there was only one office performing the functions of today’s Land Transportation Office (LTO) and...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A money lesson in childhood days
By HERBERT VEGO
ON a rainy day, my nieces asked me to regale them with tales of my childhood days. Having turned into a senior...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A contracted seaman is always presumed ‘fit to work’
BY HERBERT VEGO
WHEN a seaman gets a “fit to work” certification from a shipping agency’s physician but gets seriously sick while on board within...