Comment to PNA article titled ‘Tagalog or Filipino? Experts set record straight on National...
NAPOLEONIC France set a mono-cultural standard that was soon followed by most of the rest of the world.
At the extreme end was probably...
Iloilo City flooding: a collective failure
FLOODING in Iloilo City has long been viewed as an engineering issue, solved with drainage projects, pumping stations, and flood-control structures. But the recent...
True love has a universal scope
THIS IS what we can get from the readings of the Mass on the 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B. (cfr. Acts 10, 25-26.34-35.44-48;...
Dead global institutions in a bifurcating world
THE AGE of Globalization is slowly giving way to the Age of Bifurcation.
It’s not necessarily a return to the Cold War, but the...
A lost cause
ONCE AGAIN, Small Town Lottery (STL) has become the latest “meat of the matter” in Bacolod City’s daily buzz.City Councilor Dindo Ramos is making...
Heroes do bleed too, 2
BUT THOSE of us who teach history, who carry memory as both burden and gift, know that symbolic erasures often precede real ones.
The Atenean...
Alarming sugar consumption
THE SUGAR consumption habits in the United Kingdom is alarming.
In what it calls “staggering” numbers, the Oral Health Foundation says that eight out of...
Protecting against hornet infestation
I BELIEVE in solving problems at the bud, before they would even grow into bigger problems.
Such is the case of the Asian hornet, which...
