Aguilar: Violence Against Women

FIELD Marshal Montgomery: Lady Astor, I must tell you that I do not approve of politicians.

Mercado: Dating Miss Cory

YOU might be interested to know that I had spent Valentine’s Day with Ms. Cory Quirino, celebrated health and fitness guru in cosmopolitan society.

Pangan: Heal the World

PRAYERS, incantations and solemn intentions may perhaps help appease the brewing, nay, broiling world peace situation and convince the squabbling leaders protested against by their subjects, to step down, bow to their demands for change and give peace a chance.

Paras: Killing Me (and You) Softly

MAYBE not so softly.

One bothersome sight one encounters while driving through the NLEx is that of grass or hay burning. When the fire is raging and razing more and more of the area, the ensuing smoke gets so thick it makes the road hazardous. One can’t see anything beyond one’s windshield. I have gone through this experience many times and every single time I pray that I won’t bump into the next car. You can’t stop, else the car, or, God forbid, a truck or bus behind you bumps into you. You plod on slowly until you see the glimmer of light beyond the blinding fog of smoke.

Bunye: BSP aids OFW evacuees from Libya

GOOD news to our returning Overseas Foreign Workers from Libya.

Gueco: Mayor EdPam’s health crusade

AMAZING health is our precious treasure house on planet Earth. Walking with ‘gusto’ or energy spells the difference between living and mere existing.

Garcia: Gawing babagwa (The Way of the Spider)

Neng ding sabla magi lang mali anti ning pamisanmisan; Neng ing dalan a daralpakan mu bala pane n’yang pataluktuk; Neng ding panyali mu ditak na la mu, at ding utang dakal la At bisa ka sanang tumiman dapot mangisnawa na kang saldak; Neng ing pamagingat bisa na kang sasakab – Wa, paynawa ka, dapot e ka tutuknang. Ing tagumpe, kabigwan yang beligtad. Ing pirang dusing ding biga ning pamikakunu, At e mu malyaring sabyan nung nu na ka kalapit. Mekad malapit ne agyang bala malaut ya pa. Lakwas ka pang lumaban nung kapilan ka mengaturan – Nung kapilan ding sablang bage kanita la mipapakarok kanita ka e dapat sumuku.

Dacawi: Losing aelfric

PATIENTS undergoing twice-a-week dialysis treatments here and in Benguet are trying to cope with the emptiness over the recent death of one of them. One who made a difference.

Carino: Friday 

IT IS Friday as I write this of these: Leaving Camp Seven late this morning, along with many others traversing historic Kennon Road on the way to town, I came across the scene of a two-truck accident. By the time I was passing through the scene, the trucks had, thankfully, already been maneuvered to the side of a narrow strip of said historic road. 

Cayading: Skills of good parenting

“SOMETIMES discipline, which means ‘to teach,’ is confused with criticism. Children—as well as people of all ages—improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.” Susan W. Tanner

Dumaguing: An Aspirin a day keeps a heart attack away

IF YOU have suffered from a heart attack or a stroke, this statement which is almost like a nursery rhyme or even a mantra for some patients, would sound all too familiar or probably, you have not had a heart issue, but you have some identified heart disease risks like diabetes or high cholesterol. In each of these cases, a daily aspirin therapy may be one prescribed by your family doctor. Come to think of it, how exactly does one pill keep your heart healthy and refuse the probability of a major disaster like a heart attack?

Del Rosario: Ang ganda!

SINCE I joined Toastmasters in 2005, my family and I have been attending the national yearly and some mid-year conventions in various parts of the Philippines. We also get to visit many places near the convention sites as we usually extend our stay by a day or two.

Our family has also gone up north several times too, on our own.

Balweg: CARAD did it

THE Cordillera Alliance for Autonomy and Development (CARAD), Inc., showed last March 26, 2011, what unity and determination can do. Not even the rigors of distances and limited funds deterred representatives chosen and sent by the varied sectors of CAR (Cordillera Administrative Region) to Baguio for the purpose of choosing one in interim capacity to head the Cordillera Regional Assembly (CRA) in order for it to be fully functional once more. The CRA, to recall, was long dormant due to luck of budgetary funds and the demise of its Chairman, the late Any. Sergio Kawi.

Padilla: Filipino achievers stamp supremacy in international sports

SINCE Nonito Donaire Jr. captured the World Boxing Organization and the World Boxing Council bantamweight championship belts two weeks ago, three more of our "kababayans" joined the leaderboard after topping their respective sports discipline. Nonito "The Filipino Flash," won convincingly his third title belt after he demolished Mexican Fernando Montiel with a thunderous left hook on his temple which eventually forced him to submission on the second round of their scheduled 12-round bout.

Bennett: A Panagbenga Swan Song

IT IS 16 years after the first Panagbenga. For many businesses, it is the 16th year of profitable enterprises and more entertaining productions but it may be the swan song of the Baguio Commercial Photographers Guild Association, Inc. The sexagenarians and septuagenarians who in their youth came to Baguio from Pangasinan to learn the profitable trade of photography that William Ang brought to Burnham Park are now struggling to keep their head above water.

Sun.Star Essay: Forever genderizing

IT’S now International Women’s Month and so, is it time to talk again and again about the freedom and rights of the woman?

Mercado: Sense of entitlement

MEINRADO Paredes is the no-nonsense executive judge of Cebu Regional Trial Court. He’s also one of 7,526 victims of the Marcos martial law regime, US federal court ruled. Paredes had been jailed for criticizing a regime “liable for torture, summary executions and disappearances.”

Paredes will donate the $1,000 check wrung from the Marcos estate to Cebu city jail and to a human rights NGO. “We got a historic decision that human rights violations were committed," he said. “A repressive regime was made to answer for its deeds.”

Cabaero: Knowing Heidi

CEBUANOS got the chance to meet in person Heidi Mendoza when she held several forums in Cebu yesterday, Saturday.

Mendoza’s visit was a chance to know her in person, learn more about her family and experience, and find out how life has been after exposing irregularities in the Armed Forces of the Philippines hierarchy.

Malilong: Detour in probe on Ellah Joy’s death

WHE did lawyer Daryl Amante sue, Acting Provincial Fiscal England Berciles or his assistant, Marlon Atillo?

If it was Berciles, then it is more than just a case of mistaken identity because there is no way you can mistake him for defense lawyer Glen Villariza. I know both because England was my classmate in the bar review while Glen and I used to work in the same law office. On the other hand, I am not very familiar with Atillo but the gentleman in the picture in a local newspaper showing a group sharing a meal did look like Glen.

Lim: Money

THE continuing Senate inquiry into military corruption is depressing.

It is especially depressing for all those who put in an honest day’s work. I don’t know for a fact if those who have been accused of corruption are indeed guilty but in the face of mounting evidence, it is a likely conclusion.

Tabada: Past imperfect

ARMANDO J. Malay: A Guardian of Memory” is a book I was meant to find a week after the 25th anniversary of the Edsa Revolution.

The recent commemoration of the People Power Revolution, which ousted a dictator without bloodshed, drew a lot of re-examination in the media. Listening to people from all walks of life remember events of 25 years ago, I am reminded of a manufacturer’s warning printed on the rear view mirror of a vehicle.

Estremera: Truth in advertising

THOSE who know me will agree that I wasn't gifted with flawless skin. Way past puberty, my skin still breaks out. And thus the poor couch potato me cannot help but be envious of other women's flawless skin and be enticed by the flawless skin promised by the women on television. Beauty from the inside, one popular showbiz personality says of the vitamin E she was endorsing.

Covington: Ghadaffi, Cory, and me

I SAW Ghadaffi in the flesh once whilst working in a military run West African country. Ghadaffi was visiting, the townsfolk ordered to spontaneously line the city streets and cheer the great man as he passed in his emerald-green Cadillac convertible.

Custodio: Visiting Paris (not Hilton) - 2

(Editor's Note: This was supposed to have been published last Sunday, February 27, 2011 as continuation of the February 20 article. But some mix-up occurred and the second part was not published as scheduled. Our apologies to the writer and the readers.)

Sunday Essays: Graffiti's dilemma

TO MANY, the images and letterings on the sidewalk walls of Matina Town Square down to NCC Mall of Maa may seem nothing more than vandalism; filth and sabotage.

Sunday Essays: Divine truth or mortal fraud?

HISTORY has it that human beings have always had a craving to foresee what lies ahead.

Van Vugt: Peace talks and Buddhism

MY OPEN Letter to Jorge Madlos that I published in my previous column was sent also to Jorge directly through his email address. I am still waiting for a response from Jorge, which he could send to my email address. I hope to get a favorable response from him.

Editorial: Not ephedrine, after all

IT WAS not a case of positive identification against alibi; rather it was a case of “sniffing” identification against laboratory test.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) recently did a Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) when it detained and later freed two Chinese nationals based on, as Tagalogs would put it, “maling akala.”

Libre: Hope in Christchurch

ON Thursday, March 3, the rescue operations in Christchurch shifted from saving lives to recovering the remains of victims in the worst calamity to hit New Zealand this century. With 163 people confirmed dead, the operations became an international as the victims included foreigners, mostly students, from China, Japan and the Philippines, among others.

Wenceslao: IBP polls controversy, prosecutors ‘in party’

I DON'T really know lawyers Earl Bonachita and Ian Sapayan. They’re not the usual legal practitioners in the city that grab the limelight because: one, they handle controversial cases, and two, they themselves are controversial.

But the election of officers of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Cebu City chapter where Bonachita and Sapayan tangled for the top post itself turned controversial. So it must be a rare moment for them. They’re in the limelight for once.