Cultivate the ‘financial’ capacity of farmers

BY JULIO P. YAP JR. Wednesday, February 21, 2018 IT IS EVIDENT that majority of farmers have limited access to resources, either for financing the improvement...

Dapat amligan ta gid ang aton ‘world’s best resort’

Ni Wenceslao “Matt” E. Mateo Jr February 20, 2018 Sang 2015, gin-warningan na sang Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang mga establicimiento sa Boracay...

Free?

EDITORIAL February 20, 2018 JUST how free is the so-called free higher education (read: no tuition fee) program of the government in public tertiary schools? A...

Our education system is still in crisis

BY HERBERT VEGO February 20, 2018 MY NIECE Lenny – having spent elementary to secondary levels in private schools – recently asked me why we (referring...

Graduation na naman

BY JOEL FRANCO February 20, 2018 PEBRERO na. Pag-abot sang bulan sang Marso kag Abril, ti-on na sang graduation sa senior high school kag kolehiyo. Pero pabay-an...

In perpetual fear

EDITORIAL February 19, 2018 HOW MANY actually participated in the nationwide earthquake drill on Feb. 15? Buried by bigger headlines last week was the first quarter nationwide...

The Philippines must withdraw from the ICC

BY LUIS BUENAFLIR JR. February 19, 2018 THAT Benigno Simeon Aquino III aka Noynoy Aquino is a nincompoop is a fact that most natives of this...

Also, Love (Part 9)

BY PETER SOLIS NERY February 19, 2018 MY GREEN CARD came through the mail on Dec. 12, 2012 — 12/12/12. I served my hospital one more...

The business of corruption

BY IKE SEÑERES February 19, 2018 SIMPLY put, bureaucrat-capitalism is the practice of using the official capacity or authority of a public official for his or...

Wasting rice

EDITORIAL February 18, 2018 THE Philippines, one of the world’s biggest importers of rice, could go a long way to achieving its elusive goal of self-sufficiency...