EDITORIAL | Breakthrough

Sunday, April 9, 2017   PEACE-loving Filipinos welcome another successful round of formal peace negotiations between the government and the communists, specifically the agreements on free...

PEOPLE POWWOW | ‘Departmentalizing’ TESDA

BY HERBERT VEGO Sunday, April 9, 2017 A RECENT item in Lapsus Calami announced the plan of Rep. Raul “Boboy” Tupas (5th District, Iloilo) to file...

INTERNATIONAL ILONGGO | ‘Venezuela has changed forever’

BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO Sunday, April 9, 2017 SHORTLY after claiming to have won a referendum, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez once said, “Venezuela has changed...

RAMBLINGS OF THE UNMARRIED | Ex-housemate

BY GORDON Q. GUILLERGAN Sunday, April 9, 2017   “If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about...

BULATLAT PERSPECTIVE | A step closer to peace

BY BENJIE OLIVEROS     THE NEGOTIATING panels of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)...

VIEWPOINTS | Globalization

BY OSCAR CRUZ Sunday, April 9, 2017     OUR USUALLY qualified “Modern Era” is primarily marked and qualified by the complex phenomenon of economic and financial “Globalization”...

EDITORIAL | Collective effort

Saturday, April 8, 2017 EARTH Day is on April 22 yet, two weeks from now, but it is never too early to make an appeal...

BENEATH & BEYOND | Confluence

BY SONIA D. DAQUILA Saturday, April 8, 2017 IN THE Philippines, politics is being played among common Filipino celebrations such as the KBL. Kasal, Bunyag and Lubong (wedding,...

NO FILTER | Juvenilia

BY RHICK LARS VLADIMER ALBAY Saturday, April 8, 2017 SYLVIA Plath’s Admonition remains one of my favorite poems. Short and sweet, its opening verse goes: “If you...

PAUTWAS! | Ginsakripisyo nga karnero

BY JOEL FRANCO Saturday, April 8, 2017 WALA KO man nakilala sang tul-id si anay Department of Interior and Local Government secretary (DILG) Ismael “Mike” Sueno...