A big middle finger!
BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR.
WHEN Mary Joy Tabal crossed the finished line of the 2017 Southeast Asian Games marathon competition as gold medal winner it...
The contract
BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA
EARLY this week, the Commission on Audit (COA) expressed its desire to seek the cancellation of the public-private partnership (PPP) of...
On DBP as infrastructure bank
BY MANNY VILLAR
INADEQUATE road networks, ports and seaports, transport systems and other infrastructure facilities have often been cited as major obstacles to economic growth in...
Winning the Palanca, again
BY PETER SOLIS NERY
I JUST got official word that I won another Palanca Award, again, this year.
It is my 19th career Palanca Award including...
No more Kians, please
BY ROMA GONZLES
HE WAS HANGING around a sari-sari store when policemen in civilian clothes grabbed him up. They dragged him to the end of a...
Viability of prawn farming in the Philippines
BY JULIO P. YAP JR.
LOCALLY farmed prawn could be a vital foreign exchange earner for the country.
The local industry may have been experiencing a...
Go straight to the source
PRESIDENT Duterte has acknowledged his failure to address the drug problem within his self-imposed deadline ranging from three to six months. Many have been...
The pledges to save Boracay are still pledges
BY HERBERT VEGO
THERE was no fun in my last visit to Boracay, not with more new buildings still rising along narrow roads. Those trappings...
The ban
BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA
I WAS ONE of the many people happy when the executive order banning smoking in public places nationwide was implemented...
Open uninhabited islands to new settlements
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN OUR article of Feb. 14, 2017 titled “Un-inhabited Islands” we mentioned of the total number of islands in our archipelago at 7,507, adding 400 new ones lately discovered.
According to NAMRIA or...