The greatest achievement
BY MANNY VILLAR
IT IS APPROPRIATE to come out with the traditional year-ender: an assessment of how the Philippines fared in 2017.
Different publications and media...
Love in the time of Bacunaua
BY PETER SOLIS NERY
XXXV. LUNCH
INSIDE the bamboo cabana, where they had lunch, was a bamboo table. Why is bamboo a good symbol of exemplary...
Tears in Jerusalem
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
I COULDN’T help the tears. Drop by drop, the tears fell without my knowing it. Fragments of a song still float in...
Weedy rice competes with cultivated rice
BY JULIO P. YAP JR.
BASED on a recent study conducted by a team of Philippine Rice Research Institute’s (PhilRice’s) weed science researchers, it apparently...
Principle of the universal destination of goods
BY OSCAR CRUZ
THERE IS the well-known saying that as everyone is born having nothing in his hands, so it is that everybody dies without...
An illogical step backward
Ni Ime Sornito
A BILL repealing the waste incineration ban under Republic Act (RA) 8749 or the Clean Air Act of 1999 got the nod...
This TRAIN will run roughshod over the poor
BY HERBERT L. VEGO
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte was obviously lying when he described the “railroaded” Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) measure as his...
Mayor Joe meddling with MIWD’s function?
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
LIKE A GOOD father of the family, what Iloilo City’s Mayor Jose Espinosa III is trying to do with his moves on the Metro...
Inadequate oversight, Part 3
BY NEIL HONEYMAN
AUTOMATION has revolutionized banking and will continue to do so. Overall, this is good. But there are flaws.
A major issue is that...
Giving green
HOW DO WE tackle crass consumerism so that the real reason for the season is not drowned out by the festive celebration? This time...