PEOPLE POWWOW: A contracted seaman is always presumed ‘fit to work’
BY HERBERT VEGO
WHEN a seaman gets a “fit to work” certification from a shipping agency’s physician but gets seriously sick while on board within...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: That’s good!
BY ROMMEL YNION
YOU have a problem? That’s good!
Haven’t you noticed that everything you have achieved in life is just a product of a problem...
ACCENTS: IFFSM: Appalled and enraged
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
SEPTEMBER 14 as I write this is short of a day in the six-month anniversary of the unsolved murder of Romeo Capalla,...
BRIDGES: Face and answer the allegations
BY SAMMY JULIAN
WE all know by this time that Vice President Jejomar Binay and his family have been accused of corruption in the alleged...
BRIDGES: Torchbearer and guardian of flame
SAMMY JULIAN
“DO you know why Mar Roxas is the perfect successor to President Benigno Aquino III,” one close friend asked us.
Two reasons, he said:...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A misleading indicator of productivity
By HERBERT VEGO
EACH time President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III paints a glowing picture of the country’s “prosperity” because of tuwid na daan, the...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Hallmark of Hilmarc
BY ROMMEL YNION
LONG before this controversy swirled around the overpricing of Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), “No To Corruption” billboards dotted the landscape of Iloilo...
BRIDGES: There is no indecency about bikinis
BY SAMMY JULIAN
BIKINI contests are now outlawed in Iloilo City. This after the city council recently approved an ordinance banning such events.
According to the...
ADVOCACY MINDANAO: On sending to jail former presidents
BY JESS DUREZA
I HAD an animated talk with a friend who felt concerned that President Noynoy would be facing the same fate as former...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Raul Gonzalez Sr. was also a journalist
By HERBERT VEGO
IN the wake of the death of former Justice secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr. Sunday night, we heard Ilonggos from all walks of life reminiscing...