Editorial: ‘Totus Tuus’ for the workers, the poor and the family
WE CELEBRATE starting today until February 20 the Totus Tuus! Week to commemorate the historic visit of the late Pope John Paul II in Bacolod City last February 20, 1981.
The Pope came at a time when Negros was reeling from economic hardships and military repression which fueled the...
Sánchez: 2015
FOR us here in Negros Occidental, the end of days seems not on December 21, 2012 during the Winter Solstice—supposedly the end-date under the Mayan Calendar, but on 2015. Where believers of the Mayan Calendar embellished Mayan predictions with astronomy, the end of days in Negros Occidental 2015...
Honeyman: K to 12: The Hidden Agenda
IN MAY 2011, Senator Antonio F Trillanes IV put forward a Resolution ‘Directing the Senate Committee on Education to conduct an inquiry into the feasibility, viability, practicality and the acceptability of justifications advanced by the Department of Education in implementing K to 12.’
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Hagad: Judicial precedents
WHAT did the Supreme Court have to say about offenses committed by government officers or employees similar to the one charged by Article 2 of the present Impeachment Complaint? Ms. Cristina Mendez who contributed to the Philippine Star last week gave us two very significant decisions.
Editorial: To know is to love
BEING informed is romantic, too.
We must put a premium on getting accurate information to save and improve our lives. This is the valuable insight from Feb. 6, 2012, when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake and rumors of a tsunami spread panic among crowds in Cebu.
Wenceslao: Will SC provide the ending?
WILL the Supreme Court present an ending to the impeachment trial of its own chief justice, Renato Corona? That is an interesting question to answer as the senator-judges of the Senate acting as an impeachment court discuss today the issuance by the High Court of a temporary restraining order (...
Nalzaro: Getting a scolding
JUST recently, a group of deans and professors from the University of the Philippines visited the Capitol upon the invitation of Gov. Gwen Garcia. They thought they were invited to a party or for a dialogue on how to operate the Cebu Performing Arts (CPA) building, which is inside the UP Visayas...
Seares: Prosecuting the ‘scare monger’
TRYING to impress President Noynoy Aquino, who wanted scare-mongers caught and punished, police last Friday charged a radio block-timer with public disorder.
Mongaya: Corona 8
EIGHT Supreme Court (SC) justices voted for a temporary restraining order on the opening of dollar bank accounts of Chief Justice Renato Corona by the Senate impeachment court.
After the opening of peso accounts in two banks that showed several millions that Chief Justice Corona failed to...
Echaves: Ageing gracefully
WOW! Makaabot kaha ta anang edara noh? (Can we even reach that age?)”
So exclaimed everyone when my father turned 94 last month. Awesome, too, were an elderly couple in Manila featured on TV. The husband was 101 years old and the wife, 100.
Of course, good genes help. My...
Pangan: Love, Unrequited
TOMORROW may see the global observance of Valentine's Day, in every imaginable way, manner or forum, degree and intensity.
Mercado: February
THE cold winds of the Yuletide season had segued on to shivering January with its monsoon breezes ushering the balmy days of February.
We still wake up on cold lazy morning curious as to President Noy's future with Ms. Grace Lee and little confused about our own destiny according to...
Sapnu: ACPO Pinaganda ni Recomono
MGA ilang buwan nang maupo si Senior Superintendent Rodolfo Recomono Jr. bilang Angeles City police director, sinimulan nitong ayusin ang police headquarters sa Camp Tomas Pepito.
Unang pinaayos ni Recomono ang kalsada sa loob ng Angeles City Police Office (ACPO) mula sa gate hanggang sa...
Valle: Gentle giant
WHAT can be more profound an expression of love than a quite demonstration of affection that does not need words? Words can sometimes interfere in the way express themselves to each other, and ironically, silence sometimes can articulate true feelings or the dictates of the heart.
Mendoza: Love day
DIRECTOR'S Cut: (This portion features the thoughts of DepEd 11 Regional Director Susana Teresa B. Estigoy, CESO IV to all stakeholders and recipients of the efforts to improve the basic education) I do not consider my job as plain work -- rather it is my LIFE. "We have to continually examine...
Bunye: Overspending and budgeting
IN THE last month, I have been writing about the efforts of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Financial Consumer Affairs Group (FCAG) in disseminating helpful consumer tips, especially in light of post-holiday debts.
Cayading: Why is saving important?
PEOPLE whom this writer encountered are always telling me they’re saving, and then when I ask what their goal is, they tell me it’s to buy a new car, go on a lovely vacation with the kids, or put in a new kitchen wares, furniture, etc.... you name it, they have it. Well, this is “SAVING”… not in...
Capili: Organizing real estate professionals
(We are sharing this information and announcement on the organization of real estate service practitioners coming the National Office of PhilRES through its Secretary General Josefina D. Magumcia)
Luzano: Second floor a kalsada
ARAMID dagiti adu a drivers ditoy Baguio—singit dita, ditoy ditoy. Kaasi piman dagiti naanus nga agpaspasensia. Dagiti narasok, agkatkatawada ta nalalaingda kano a drivers. Ngen no madisgrasyakayo, isangityo pay ti agpakawan ken agpakumbaba. Naudin ti amin. Agbaliwkan kabsat. Saludsod: Apay...
Sunstar Essay: Like children
I ASKED the taxi driver I took a day after the recent Negros-Cebu 6.9 earthquake. “Diin ka paglinog?”
The strength of the tremors differed in the places where they landed, from 6 to 6.5 to 6.6 to 6.7 to 6.8 to 6.9, unhappily not below magnitude 6.)
Mercado: Rubbing patience raw
HOW long, O Catiline, will you abuse our patience?” Cicero erupted in 63 BC at the Roman Senate against a tyrant plotting subversion.
“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?” fits exchanges between Rep. Tomas Osmeña and Mayor Mike Rama on the panic, triggered by false...
Obenieta: Qualifying the quick
TO walk the talk of progress, the first step is to find out where we would likely wobble and stumble flat on our faces.
Up front with our vulnerability could be the better part of valor, hands down, even though uncertainty finds us groveling with a clown’s grin. Speaking of Cebu and...
Lim: Love yourself
I WAS restless, inattentive and hyper-active as a child. I had trouble sitting still or keeping quiet. I found school mostly boring. My mind wandered off constantly. And I chatted incessantly in class. This, understandably, irked my teachers.
One school year, I was moved to all parts of...
Malilong: My priest, right or wrong
THE issue of sexual abuses committed by members of the clergy is a sensitive one that the Catholic Church in the Philippines has consistently sought to avoid discussing publicly in the past. It is therefore a surprise that no less than the Archbishop of Manila has all but acknowledged the extent...
Tabada: When women talk
SHE said her name is Arlene. She lived and worked for a time in Manila, handling the carvings sold in the stall she handles now in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
Though it was quicker and more lucrative to sell goods to tourists and locals who didn’t count the cost, city life tired her....
