Pangan: Change of Calling
NO ONE yet is certain if the beleaguered and prosecuted Chief Justice Renato C. Corona maybe convicted or acquitted but which way the decision goes, it may be inarguable that he will lose partially, at least, his legal glitter, if not his persona.
Pangan: Dubious
WORKING in a government organization, office or agency is not a walk in the park. There are norms, ethics and courtesies to be observed and implemented as the law bears hard on violators, from the top official of the hierarchy down to the lowest employee covered by Civil Service rules.
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Pangan: Ghosts
DISTURBING, if not surprising, is the report that Quezon City councilors Roderick Paulate and Francisco Calalay Jr. were ordered suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman for six months without pay for having some 60 ghost employees on the City Hall's payroll.
Pangan: Fiduciary dunned
BANKS are, by law and their charters, clothed with fiduciary functions in their day-to-day operations and can invoke secrecy of their deposit balances when inquired into without court orders. This latter defiant stance, mind, is so evident in the ongoing CJ Corona impeachment trial where...
Pangan: Let's Talk Green
WITH the scorching summer heat mercilessly bearing down on us even through late afternoons and evenings, we must wake up to the need to re-green our surroundings and other arable and idle lands.
Summer 2012 may be that hot and humid but who can tell next year may not be hotter and crueler...
Pangan: Nurse the Frustration
PERISH the expectation that in case the standoff at Panatag Shoal (international name: Scarborough Shoal) shall ripen into a small-scale war, the United States will come fast to our aid. No, not in our lifetime, I suppose.
As the press statement from Washington D. C. disclosed, the 2 + 2...
Pangan: No hindrance at all
MANY were called but only a few were chosen.
Pangan: Standoff
WHEN push comes to shove, as the line goes, the puny state usually capitulates. It is only perhaps in the Bible that one David, through divine intervention, was able to put one over a Goliath. Such an example relates to the humongous formerly active communist state, China, which land area alone...
Pangan: Promo
THE usually lethargic Department of Trade and Industry officials had only lame excuses when interviewed on television about the complaints of gullible promo getters, foreign and domestic, ranging from shabby treatment from airline personnel to sudden cancellation of scheduled flights without...
Pangan: A challenge to graduates
YESTERDAY, I was invited to speak before graduates of the AMA Computer Learning Center, or ACLC at the Pampanga Convention Center, City of San Fernando. I thought of asking the indulgence of readers and share my speech with them:
Pangan: Hoard
EVEN the most commendable development plans and projects cannot go off the ground without adequate funding.
Pangan: Realignment
THE buzzword nowadays is which political party will dictate the tempo of next year's midterm elections. Reports have it that prominent candidates, incumbents and uncommitted, are now being shortlisted to form what the propagandists call winnables.
Pangan: Mutual
IN THESE times of sustained sorrowful miseries, people come to bind themselves in a show of unity, in order to face squarely the challenges at hand.
It is no different in the case of mutual benefit firms or companies that are composed of people of the same trade or persuasion and goal: to...
Pangan: Defiant
DEFIANT and stubborn, if not outright deviant.
Ex-Palawan governor Joel T. Reyes is one classic example of how our prosecutorial and justice system can be mocked, toyed with and blatantly disregarded.
Pangan: Threat
JUST when thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) were settled in the prosperous South Korean peninsula, a threat of being evacuated looms visibly in the horizon, as its provocative northern counterpart, a hard-core communist ally of China, rears its ugly head via a rocket launch and...
Pangan: Upfront
ROAR and furor greeted the suggestion that the statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) of other government officials be disclosed, apart from Chief Justice (CJ) Renato Corona and his fellow Supreme Court justices. Understandably, objections, dissent and protestation come from those...
Pangan: Hail, the Traders
THE backbone of a country's economy is the cluster of small but consistent traders who survive on shoestring budgets and goods possessed on consignment. To these normally low-income traders, there is no such thing as capital flight, as is usually done by huge capitalists who hoard money in the...
Pangan: Gearing up
NO MATTER what or how our protestations are regarding the seeming belligerent pose and stance of China, euphemistically called and known as People's Republic of China, tiny (literally and realistically) nations like the Philippines and fellow Spratly Islands claimants/pretenders Vietnam,...
Pangan: Fallback
NOTHING compares with readiness, alertness and vigilance in the expectation of impending untoward incidents in this summer of 2012.
While I do not profess whole faith in the weather forecasts of Pagasa with a kilometric nomenclature of Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical...
Pangan: Unfinished business
IT'S a good thing the League of Provinces of the Philippines or LPP members realized the urgent need "to work for genuine unity and peace, good governance, principled leadership and economic progress to complete the unfinished business of the 1986 Edsa Revolution."
Affixing their...
Pangan: Doled Out
THE top gun of the Department of Labor and Employment or DoLE, Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, must have several plausible reasons for suggesting that the holiday economics implemented first during the Arroyo administration may not be good for the economy, adding that holidays have both economic and...
Pangan: Blasé
LITIGATIONS in Philippine courts take decades to finish or complete. By the time one simple civil case is rested or submitted for resolution, one or most of the litigants are already having heavenly repose. Why? Because our laws were so worded or crafted as to allow technicalities to interfere...
Pangan: Love, Unrequited
TOMORROW may see the global observance of Valentine's Day, in every imaginable way, manner or forum, degree and intensity.
Pangan: Figures Don't Lie
FIGURES may not necessarily lie, especially if quoted in real terms and if the source if credible and unimpeachable.
Whatever the pronouncements from Malacañang are, more Filipinos are getting hungry every day and as based on the latest Social Weather Station (SWS), some 4.5 million...
Pangan: Some lessons learned
MUCH has been commented on and written about the ongoing impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Lawyers and laymen alike must have learned lessons from it, if not on trial techniques, but of the impact of the presentations of the prosecution and the defense.
