Time running out on PECO
LET OUR readers
be reminded that on Oct. 10 this year, this corner revealed a telephone
conversation I had with Mayor Jerry Treñas. I asked him...
A way for PECO and MORE Power to conciliate
“WASN’T Mayor
Jerry Treñas a lawyer of
PECO?”
Somebody
asked me that question after reading my column the other day, where I opined
that the mayor of Iloilo City...
Good move, Mayor Jerry!
THERE is an end to a gentleman’s
patience.
The image on our viewfinder is that of
Mayor Jerry Treñas tilting the power mills of Panay Electric Co....
Determination, not ‘sin tax’, deters smoking
THE Department of Health (DOH) has
repeatedly lauded the new round of excise taxation on cigarettes under Republic
Act No. 11346 as a way to discourage...
More on life after death
THIS
is a sequel to Thursday’s column, where we viewed the Christian beliefs on life
after death as an unsettled controversy among theologians of various sects.
This...
PECO’S promise impossible to fulfill
IT DOES NOT make sense that Panay
Electric Co. (PECO) is dangling a promise apt to be broken – a P1.1 billion
investment to upgrade its...
Yes to repeal of K-12 program
THE Department of Education (DepEd), according to an unexpected news
item, now welcomes the reported plan of the House of Representatives to review
the effectiveness of...
‘Spaghetti’ lines caused four fires within 24 hours
DOES Panay
Electric Co. (PECO) no longer have enough maintenance crew to keep its power
lines free from fire?
For the first
time within 24 hours, between Oct....
More on why I don’t believe in religion
THERE WAS a time
in this corner when I wrote about a visiting American Jew who expressed
surprise why most Filipinos were Christians. He wished there...
Conquering depression, aborting suicide
“SUICIDE is painless,” so an old movie
theme song goes.
There must be a grain of truth to
those three words. A person may cut his life...