PEOPLE POWWOW: The dying Philippine movie industry
BY HERBERT VEGO
AS an entertainment reporter in Manila in the 1970s, I remember the stiff competition that Filipino movies were giving their Hollywood counterparts.
For...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Fear of jail
BY ROMMEL YNION
LOYALTY, cut down to size, has become just a word bereft of any meaning, used more often than not as a tool...
ADVOCACY MINDANAO: On fighting back tears
BY JESS G. DUREZA
WHEN I wrote last time mentioning about President Benigno Aquino III holding back tears during his State of the Nation Address...
BRIDGES: The need for clear government policy on food safety
BY SAMMY JULIAN
TODAY, buyers and consumers are more meticulous when it comes to the quality and safety of food and other agricultural products they...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Family farms
BY IKE SEÑERES
FAMILIES and farms have been around for centuries, but it seems that it is only in recent times that “family farms” as legal...
RURAL UPDATE: More on preparing for the APEC
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column of July 29, 2014, we talked about Iloilo’s selection as host of two meetings from 10 member-countries in the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled from September...
PEOPLE POWWOW: What a party-list for seafarers should do
By HERBERT VEGO
WE have received text messages asking: Is the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) a party-list representation? We are not surprised by...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Superboy restless in his grave?
BY ROMMEL YNION
OUR eyes glued to the boob tube as P-Noy dead-panned his delivery of his State of the Nation Address, we were sure...
ACCENTS: SONA, SOPA or SONAT-TA?
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
AS a fourth grader in the San Antonio-San Nicolas Elementary School (SASNES), my alma mater, I recall how the teacher would repudiate...
BRIDGES: ‘Open Door Policy’
SAMMY JULIAN
(Continued from yesterday)
THE irony is not lost in President Benigno Aquino III that even though the country’s immigration laws are some of the...