BRIDGES: ‘Open Door Policy’
SAMMY JULIAN
THE second most-visited tourist site in Israel after the Western Wall is Yad Vashem, the official memorial to the Jewish victims of the...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Recalling the ‘8-11’ Guimaras oil spill
By HERBERT VEGO
WHEN my friend Noel Torres told me the other day that Mayor Emmanuel Galila of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras had written a letter...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Delusions of grandeur
BY ROMMEL YNION
WHAT is alarming now is not the voice of the people which in pre-PCOS era, was purported to be the voice of...
BRIDGES: Another setback for Jalaur mega dam projectÂ
BYÂ SAMMYÂ JULIAN
YET again, the highly controversial P11.2-billion Jalaur River Multipurpose Project – Phase II has received another indictment, this time from a Korean non-government organization...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Eden in the city
BY IKE SEÑERES
IT’S an old story that I still remember.
Many years ago, the people of Taiwan planted every parcel of vacant land in their...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A lesson from Benjamin Franklin
By HERBERT VEGO
ANYBODY who has seen a hundred-dollar bill knows how he looked like in his time. It’s where the portrait of Ben Franklin...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: What I like about Binay
BY ROMMEL YNION
ASPHYXIATED by the vice-like grip of the holier-than-thou P-Noy administration, I am just a modern-day Filipino who yearns to be free again....
BRIDGES: No end to conflict
BY SAMMY JULIAN
THERE is no military solution to the problem of Gaza, or the West Bank or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Because if and when...
RURAL UPDATE: Banking correspondent arrangement
BY JOHNNYÂ NOVERA
WE were amazed by the speed by which Congress approved the amendment to Republic Act No. 7721, the “Act Liberalizing the Entry and Scope of Operations of Foreign Banks...
PEOPLE POWWOW: 40 years of ‘lawyering’ for overseas Filipino seamen
By HERBERT VEGO
WHY has this column repeatedly played up labor cases handled by the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) under maritime lawyer Pedro...