Threat to peace

(We yield this space the statement of the Movement Against Tyranny due to its timeliness. – Ed.) PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s request for Congress to extend...

A lament on neglect of herbal medicine

BY HERBERT VEGO IT’S VERY ironic that while our country is reputedly rich in herbal medicine, we have failed to exploit plants that our rural...

Social media

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS WHAT STARTED as a platform for updating, interacting with and expanding a person’s network of friends and a venue for self-expression, social...

Zero poverty zones

BY IKE SEÑERES MORE THAN one hundred years after the birth of our Republic, we are still at the stage of trying to eradicate corruption....

Cursed, forbidden

BY OSCAR CRUZ THERE are people who hate people, especially in the so-called “First World Countries,” whose anti-people stance has slowly but surely invaded “Third...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

AN EXPANSIVE “anti-terrorist” net cast by President Rodrigo Duterte directly threatens citizens’ basic constitutional rights to free expression, a free press, free assembly and...

Plastic bag season

HOW’S the Iloilo City government’s implementation of the ordinance banning the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags? We’re asking this because this is the season...

Now it’s appendicitis

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. AND YOU thought you’ve seen it all. We’ve had wheelchairs, neck braces, surgery in Hong Kong, a botched liposuction job, knee...

Campus journalists

BY RUNJI ROCIO JAMOLO NAGAKATINGALA ang iban nga may journalists nga indi gale communication o journalism graduate apang sampaton nga peryodista. Ang qualification standards (QS) nga...

DBM cures ills of the past

BY MANNY VILLAR ONE OF THE first challenges that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s economic team faced when they took office in 2016 was the government’s...