Alarming river siltation in Antique
SECRETARY Roy
Cimatu of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) could not
keep his hands off the problem anymore. And so he called the mayors...
Starting the New Year right
WITH only a few hours left in the “life” of the year 2019, we
brace ourselves for the birth of New Year 2020. What an...
Coping with New Year 2020
IT WOULD not be correct to say that the current year is
ending well. That would be like denying the 28 deaths and massive destructions
to...
Is Christmas a white lie?
WHITE LIE, the dictionary defines, is “a harmless
or trivial lie, especially one told to avoid hurting someone.”
It is in this context that most Christians
celebrate...
Survey did PECO no good
THE DAY the news broke out, we
immediately saw the hidden hand that disfigured Bombo Radyo’s survey pitting
Panay Electric Co. (PECO) against MORE Electric and...
Water level rising up
“LET us level up!”
It was Jerry P. Treñas speaking while
campaigning for mayor of Iloilo City last summer.
That challenge of the now mayor
appears to be...
Lamenting commercialized education
IS IT BELIEVABLE that, in a recently-released
result of a survey conducted by the Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA) among 600,000 15-year-old school children in...
End of lifeline for PECO?
ARE the incorporators of Panay
Electric Co. (PECO) of the opinion that, having paid more than one hundred
million pesos in overdue retail taxes to the...
The diminishing power of our peso
TWO weeks ago, I attended a seminar on foreign
exchange or speculative trading of fluctuating currencies, basically pitting
one currency against another.
The lecturer started “catching” the...
Richard Garin, private citizen
OSCAR “RICHARD” S. GARIN, JR., now a private
citizen, has left behind a permanent trail of his life as public servant. He is
best remembered for...