VIEWPOINTS | Philippine politics

BY OSCAR CRUZ INSERT  DATE HERE!      THIS IS not in any way intended to depreciate Philippine politics, much less to look down at any of the...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | Another threat of a constitutional crisis?

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Sunday, June 11, 2017   RECENTLY, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez warned of a constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court orders a joint session of...

EDITORIAL | Public health takes precedence

Saturday, June 10, 2017   PRESIDENT Duterte’s Executive Order (EO) 26 provides for the establishment of smoke-free environments in public and enclosed places. It is hoped...

NO FILTER | Leave nothing but footsteps

BY RHICK LARS VLADIMER ALBAY Saturday, June 10, 2017     IN LONG-GONE times, our ancestors, the Malay settlers and the Ati, revered the mountains of Panay. They...

MOR EVITAL THAN EVER | Among the world’s worst places for children

BY EDGARDO J. ANGARA Saturday, June 10, 2017 EARLIER this year, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested in Malapascua Island, Cebu, a 23-year-old Filipina child trafficker,...

PINOY SEAFARERS’ RIGHTS | The employers’ joint and solidarity liability

BY DENNIS R. GORECHO Saturday, June 10, 2017     WHAT is the liability of the foreign principal and the manning agent for any and all claims arising...

VIEWPOINTS | Public disposal of all seized prohibited drugs

BY OSCAR CRUZ INSERT  DATE HERE!      IT IS CERTAINLY not a secret that government law enforcement agencies have in fact seen and seized, duly recorded and...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Stand with Marawi, stand with Mindanao!

Saturday, June 10, 2017 WE EXPRESS our deepest sympathies to the families of individual casualties of the Resorts World incident. It is deplorable that fake news...

EDITORIAL | ATM fraud

Friday, June 9, 2017 THE DISCOVERY of an electronic skimming device in an automated teller machine on General Luna Street, Iloilo City on Tuesday highlights...

JUST ANOTHER DAY | And the strike failed…

BY LUIS BUENAFLOR JR. Friday, June 9, 2017     FOR ALL intents and purposes, the much ballyhooed two-day transport strike on June 5 and 6 in Iloilo...