MORE VITAL THAN EVER | Financial inclusion – the new BSP Governor’s goal

BY EDGARDO J. ANGARA Friday, May 19, 2017   INCOMING Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Nestor Espenilla will take the helm of the BSP while our...

MY LIFE AS ART | Remembering him who said no

BY PETER SOLIS NERY Friday, May 19, 2017   Just friends — Of course! If that’s all You want. (#677) * Still, I remember Waking up Next to you. (#678) * In the...

MY SPIN | The month of May in the Philippines

BY JUN ESCALONA Friday, May 19, 2017 MAY is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and the third month to have the length of...

URBAN FARMER | ‘Negros First Ranch’ aims to ensure food sufficiency

BY JULIO P. YAP JR.   THE “Negros First Ranch” project was implemented by the Negros Occidental provincial government in an effort to ensure food sufficiency...

EDITORIAL | Reforms in education

Thursday, May 18, 2017   INDEED, reforms in our education system must be pursued to make it at par with the world standard. Thus starting this...

PEOPLE POWWOW | ‘Tatus’ symbol

BY HERBERT VEGO Thursday, May 18, 2017     EVERY annual celebration of Tatusan Festival, the isolated island municipality of Caluya, Antique literally suspends its isolation in the...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | The failed promises of privatization

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Thursday, May 18, 2017     PRIVATIZATION, by whatever name – Build-Operate-Transfer or Public-Private Partnerships – was touted to be the solution to the...

PAUTWAS! | Ileco 1, 2, 3 mga inutil

BY JOEL FRANCO Thursday, May 18, 2017     HALOS adlaw adlaw na lang may brownout sa mga kabanwahanan nga sakop sang Ileco 2. Kun tawgan mo ang...

COMMENTARY | Stop war games, start peace work!

BY ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED TEACHERS - PHILIPPINES Thursday, May 18, 2017     ON MAY 8-19, 2017, the 33rd iteration of the Balikatan Exercises between the Armed Forces...

VIEWPOINTS | Age of criminal liability

BY OSCAR CRUZ Thursday, May 18, 2017   THERE is an expressed and thus duly noted move in the Philippine Congress to lower the physical age of...