EDITORIAL | Controlled use of firecrackers

Monday, June 26, 2017   NOT GIVEN much attention last week – due to other pressing matters of national importance such as the Marawi City siege...

JUST ANOTHER DAY | And Trillanes just shot himself in the foot…

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. Monday, June 26, 2017     AFTER all these years of wasting the people’s money on Sen. Antonio Trillanes from his days as a...

MY LIFE AS ART | Understanding the center of the universe

BY PETER SOLIS NERY Monday, June 26, 2017   I’m not going to lie to you. I like attention. I like being the center of attention. Being...

RURAL UPDATE | Why repair good roads?   

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Monday, June 26, 2017 WE ARE HAPPY happy with the road-widening programs in Iloilo especially to the Iloilo Airport – a six-lane highway...

LABAY MAN AKON | Ano labot ko?

BY RUNJI ROCIO JAMOLO Monday, June 26, 2017     SECURITY GUARD:  Palihog bukas sang bag mo, Ma’am. MADAM: Kaawat, ah. Nagadali ako! SECURITY GUARD: (Nagpaathag kay Madam) May...

URBAN FARMER | Development of technologies to boost local coffee production

BY JULIO P. YAP JR. Monday, June 26, 2017   THE Philippine Coffee Quality Center was recently launched by the Cavite State University (CvSU). It is designed to...

EDITORIAL | ‘Unli’

Sunday, June 25, 2017 THE proposal to ban unlimited rice offerings in restaurants has gone viral – and so are the condemnations that followed. This...

PEOPLE POWWOW | Distrust in banks logical

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, June 25, 2017!      IN THIS month of June, two Philippine Banks – the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and Banco de...

INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | An obsolete model

BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO Sunday, June 25, 2017     LAST WEEK I wrote about non-state actors. This week, I want to expand on that subject by...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Violence against women and children, a social malady

BY BENJIE OLIVEROSS Sunday, June 25, 2017     THE FESTERING, worsening economic and social crisis has not only resulted in widespread poverty and hunger, worsening social inequities...