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Editorial: Wetter months ahead

/ from 8 hours ago

THE Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) officially declared on June 14, 2019 that the rainy season has already begun."Rainfall conditions for July are expected to be generally near to above normal over most parts of Luzon and the Visayas, while generally below normal in most areas of ...

Hidalgo: Beat air pollution

Fe Hidalgo / from 8 hours ago

THE United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has reported that the most dominant causes of air pollution in rural areas is biomass burning while in the urban areas, it is vehicle and industrial emissions.The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that indoor air pollution among the members of the Association of ...

Tell it to SunStar: An arrest warrant was served instead of the brewed coffee I ordered

Gingging A. Valle / from 14 hours ago

THE road leading home on June 9, 2019 was the longest one and the most difficult of all to understand. I am still trying to tell myself that it was over, that the nightmare I experienced that fateful day was nothing but just that: a bad dream.But then the scenes ...

Abrigo: Upon my order

Danny Abrigo / from June 16, 2019

CONFLICT of interest is apparent between vicars (Quiboloy and Apolinario); the two traded barbs and one beat the other, similar to the parable of the two servants mentioned in Matthew 24:49. All believers of the doctrine that Christ is coming back very soon can conclude that what is happening today ...

Mendoza: Statement on mandatory ROTC

Lorenzo E. Mendoza / from June 16, 2019

THERE have been series of reactions from different social media platforms and talks from different corners and informal conversations on the proposed mandatory Reserved Officers Training Course (ROTC) for Senior High School students which was already passed in the third and final reading in the House of Representatives. It was ...

Editorial: Respect for the law

/ from June 16, 2019

“WE DO not have enough respect for the rule of law in his country.”This is among the most memorable and relevant statements the late Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago had said while she was still alive. She made the statement following an interview during Inquirer's Meet the Inquirer Multimedia in May 2016. ...

Custodio: The eraser thief

Nina S. Custodio / from June 15, 2019

I WOULD like to think I have never been bullied as a child. But yeah I have had my share of people who teased me and called me names. I guess that’s how it is when you’re a fat kid, people think they have the right to put you down ...

Ledesma: Callamard an impish prevaricator? (First of three parts)

Jun Ledesma / from June 14, 2019

WHEN Agnes Callamard took over the job of Philip Alston as Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Commission who conducted a probe on alleged extrajudicial killings in Davao City, she inherited the tale conjured by her predecessor like it was the biblical truth. In fact, Alston came to ...

Uyboco: What are schools for? (Part 6)

Andy Uyboco / from June 13, 2019

THE fourth and last purpose of education, according to Robinson, is personal: “Education should enable young people to engage with the world within them as well as the world around them.”He then distinguishes between these two worlds: “There is the world that exists whether or not you exist. It was ...

Abrigo: Upon my order

Danny Abrigo / from June 13, 2019

QUICK and firm “...upon my order” was one of the strongest whip-lines of President Rodrigo Duterte that became a favorite media dessert this week. It was his reaction when shot by a leading question of the host Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy in his “Give Us This Day” television program.Like Billy ...

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