Sin-o ang butigon? Basi ang Human Rights Claims Board!

SANG Mayo 12, 2018 pa gali natalana ang deadline sa pag-aprubar sang mga claims para sa kompensasyon sang mga biktima sang pang-abuso sang rehimeng...

Let the countryside ride on the progress wagon

ONE OF what I call practical indicators of progress is the changing landscape in certain cities, towns and provinces. The change is brought about...

Good writing can be taught

I LAST ran a poem-a-thon workshop in May 2014. I am pretty proud of that month-long workshop. It was, of course, a public service of The...

Mechanizing the country’s sugarcane industry

THE sugarcane industry in the country, particularly in Negros Occidental, is full of challenges. And the most feasible way to address these challenges is through...

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Gender discrimination Do you agree with President Duterte’s preference to appoint males as Ombudsman and Chief Justice? Anyone, and I mean any gender, can handle those...

Peace based on justice

(We yield this space to the statement of the Ecumenical Bishops’ Forum due to its significance. – Ed.) THE Ecumenical Bishops’ Forum is delighted with...

The legacy of the late Boy Que

IT HAS BEEN five years since the most popular Filipino-Chinese businessman in Iloilo City – Alejandro “Boy” Que – passed away.  But his legend...

Even licensed nurses start as casuals?

LAST WEEK we wrote about doing away with casual employment by introducing to the workplace multi-purpose cooperatives organized under the Cooperative Code of the...

‘Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones’

LAST WEEK, I wrote about the role of remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). This article outlined the importance of these remittances in poverty...

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

BY APRIL GRACE R. PADILLA, Intern West Visayas State University – College of Communication Cabinet cleansing How do you view the challenge “resign or get fired” of...