JUST ANOTHER DAY

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. ‘Don’t Touch My Birdie’ Don't touch my birdie Resist temptation please You don't have to grab my birdie Just call it, and it will come -...

ABOVE THE LAW

BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA Predictable atrocity FRIDAY last week, Aug. 11, I was more than a hundred miles away, heading into the northern part of...

​DREAM BIG

BY MANNY VILLAR Reforming archaic land laws OVER THE years Congress passed hundreds of bills, which, if signed by the President, became part of the law...

MY LIFE AS ART

BY PETER SOLIS NERY The King of West Visayan Literature THERE was a time in the first decade of the new millennium when West Visayan writers...

FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY

BY IKE SEÑERES FEDERAL AND PARLIAMENTARY” WE OFTEN hear people proposing either the federal form of government or the parliamentary form, and we often wonder whether...

URBAN FARMER

BY JULIO P. YAP JR. Development of various technologies for mungbean VARIOUS developed technologies for “mungbean” were showcased during a Farmers’ Field Day which was held...

EDITORIAL

Mockery THE Party-list System Act (Republic Act 7941), enacted in 1995, is supposed to “enable Filipino citizens belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sectors, organizations...

PEOPLE POWWOW

BY HERBERT VEGO Moral insights from the hundred-dollar man ANYBODY who has seen his picture on the United States’ hundred-dollar bill knows how Benjamin Franklin looked...

ABOVE THE LAW

BY AYIN DREAM D. APLASCA New landmark laws I HAVE been checking the latest news on the web and saw a list of new landmark laws...

RURAL UPDATE

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Welcome Negros Occidental ON AUG. 7, 2017 President Rodrigo R. Duterte issued Executive Order No. 38 which reverted the province of Negros Occidental to Western Visayas (Region 6) and likewise with Negros...