ADVOCACY MINDANAO: Self-destruct mode
BY JESS DUREZA
QUICKSAND SITUATION
I don’t want to be in the shoes of President Benigno Aquino III these days. He is beleaguered in almost all...
BRIDGES: Making a game out of the impeachment process
BY SAMMY JULIAN
EVER since President Joseph Estrada was accused of bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust, and culpable violation of the Constitution...
FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Local food security
BY IKE SEÑERES
WE will never achieve real food security in this country not unless we stop importing the foreign ingredients that go into the local...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A labor case won after death
By HERBERT VEGO
HE did not live to see his labor case decided in his favor, but he died fighting so that his wife and...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Identity Crisis
BY ROMMEL YNION
WHEN we don’t see what is inside us because we have been blinded by what we see outside us, then it is...
BRIDGES: A world in grief
BY SAMMY JULIAN
WE bet even the persons responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine would condemn in the strongest manner...
BRIDGES: Isabel
SAMMY JULIAN
SHE writes stories of passion; of passionate lives.
The characters she creates with broad strokes from her literary pen live with passionate commitment —...
PEOPLE POWWOW: We are now a hundred million
By HERBERT VEGO
THE last time I talked to Iloilo provincial population officer Ramon Yee, he estimated that Philippine population had already hit 100 million....
WORM’S EYE VIEW: ‘Glenda’
BY ROMMEL YNION
P-NOY, blundering throughout his four-year-old presidency, seemed to have blundered again yesterday. Why? He forgot to issue a hold departure order to...
BRIDGES: China’s ‘island-building’ strategy
SAMMY JULIAN
(Continued from July 17, 2014 issue)
“OTHER regional states probably cannot come close to matching the raw scale of Beijing’s ambitious construction, yet they...