Finance secretary hints at higher taxes
ECONOMIC managers painted a picture of stability, stressing nine years of economic reforms under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the key to this.
Estremera: R-O-C-K!
IT’S a growing malady among local journalists -- a niggling feeling deep in every real journalist's tummy matched with a desperate wish for the elections to end soon.
80 to life
THE invitation came from Jing Cosio, a friend of friends, and therefore by Davao definition is officially a very good friend.
Dreaming big
REMEMBER those streetgirls featured here just a few weeks ago who were learning to play soccer? They have completed their football clinic and have learned to love the sport -- including the fervor for the future that this sport seem to fan among the young, restless, and erstwhile hopeless.
Stella A. Estremera/taxonomy/term/98Bits and pieces of Davao
NOTHING brings back pride like photos of the past, recognizable landmarks that bring surprise and awe; memories of long ago that we were no longer able to witness.
Estremera: Hooked on Plato
SINCE re-discovering The Republic by Plato, this time without the pressure of grades and teachers who love to confuse, it has hooked me like the best-ever-selling thriller.
Red card vs abuse
“MURAG dali tan-awon, lisod diay himoon (It looked easy, but it's hard to do)," a young girl mumbles as she tries to keep a soccer football within her kicking stride at the Tionko Football Fields in Matina, late afternoon Friday.
Stella A. Estremera/taxonomy/term/98Estremera: Plato's Republic
IT WAS while browsing through Plato's "The Republic", specifically in the portion when Socrates was describing tyrants and the making of tyrants that I stopped and pondered.
Estremera: Their own little kingdoms
A FRIEND'S friend gave birth to a stillborn child. That by itself is tragic, but more tragic was how it came to be.
Estremera: The walls that confine
THE past years have brought to fore political correctness, which in my belief is nothing but put-on tact intended not to hurt but meant to insult.
