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Carvajal: Great moves

IT NEVER fails. Something good always happens when people think and act outside the box. Something especially good can, therefore, be reasonably expected from recent outside-the-political-box moves of Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia and Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella.Governor Garcia’s outsourcing ...

From 3 days ago

Carvajal: Rotten to the core

EARLIER I tagged our senators as clowns for their P4.5 billion new Senate building when 4.5 million Filipinos are homeless, 8.48 million are waterless and, if I may now add, prisoners are sick and dying in congested prisons.Reprising the case ...

From 5 days ago

Carvajal: Of clowns, idiots

HEADLINE: P700 billion lost annually to corruption.Headline: New P4.5 billion Senate Building breaks ground.Headline: Speaker of the House, Alan Peter Cayetano, asks for an additional budget of 4 billion pesos for individual congressmen.”Behind the headline: According to statistics there are ...

From 10 days ago

Carvajal: Not very smart

WE HAVE grandiose plans, worth billions of pesos, to solve traffic and mass transport problems, the solution of which is urgent but not essential for survival. Water, however, is essential for life and its growing scarcity brought about by climate ...

From 12 days ago

Carvajal: Under threat

THIS is a call to our youth to join young Swedish climate change activist, Greta Thunberg, in protesting against the inaction of governments to protect the environment.Scientific hence incontrovertible proofs abound that climate change is caused by human activities. Yet ...

From 17 days ago

Carvajal: Individual’s rights first

People who object to a divorce law for the Philippines are coming from two places. One is the Bible passage “What God has joined together let no man separate” in Mark 10:9. The other is the Constitution that upholds the ...

From 19 days ago

Carvajal: At truth’s expense

ALTHOUGH they are at bottom essentially business enterprises, mainstream media fancy themselves nevertheless as tasked with being the watchdog and voice of the powerless of society. Thus they are tagged as the Fourth Estate or the fourth group of influencers ...

From 24 days ago

Carvajal: Grim proof

It should be obvious to all by now that the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is a snake pit and its population of inmates and custodians a brood of vipers with seemingly minimal exceptions.If the centerpiece of the Philippine jail system ...

From 26 days ago

Carvajal: Wrong Christ

PRESIDENT Duterte’s question, “Why celebrate 500 years of Christianity” is definitely rhetorical. It is more of a statement (that the 500th anniversary of Christianity should not be celebrated) than a question the answers to which he already knows.I agree with ...

From 31 days ago

Carvajal: Faith and reason

THE perennial clash between religion (faith) and science (reason) has led to some of man’s worst atrocities to his fellowman.In the Crusades, Muslims and Christians killed each other in defense of their beliefs. The Spanish Inquisition brutally burned 32,000 heretics ...

From 33 days ago

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