Reward/gift versus bribery By Al S. Mendoza GIFT or reward? Or, what is a gift? What is a reward? Here’s a police officer’s story to buttress the obvious: “Sir Al, listen to me,” he tells me. “OK, fire,” I say to him. “I rescued a kid from his kidnappers,” says he. “Great!” I tell him. “Then what?” […]
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A triple sea mishap of tragic proportions By Al S. Mendoza THE recent triple tragedy in Guimaras-Iloilo is another grim reminder of how vulnerable we are when we travel by sea. No less than 30 lives were lost when three motorboats capsized just hours apart in the Iloilo Strait. Many of the victims came from […]
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What if Mayweather suddenly unretire? By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao keeps saying he won’t retire. N’yet. This, even as he just fought his toughest bout the last five years. This, even as he almost lost to Keith Thurman—in the eyes of the judges. This, even as he looked truly vulnerable on July 21 against […]
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Time to retire for Pacquiao? By Al S. Mendoza MY knockout prediction went pfft. But not the other one: Manny Pacquiao winning by decision. Good enough. As I said, predicting the outcome of any fight is one of the hardest jobs of a columnist. But we just had to do it each time as it […]
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Pacquiao to win by KO between 5-9 rounds By Al S. Mendoza AGAIN, time to make a prediction. It’s a job that I have to face from time to time. Part of the territory. I should not have been a columnist, dealing mainly on sports, if I would avoid this task. Not even once will […]
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Why Cayetano clinched the Speakership first By: Al S. Mendoza FROM the very start, Alan Peter Cayetano would be first. He will be the Speaker of the House in the 18th Congress’s first 15 months that begins on July 22. That coincides with the State of the Nation Address at the Batasan, where President Duterte […]
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Just reminiscing By Al S. Mendoza UNDER dictator Marcos, there was no freedom of speech. Thus, from 1972 to 1986, every Filipino was forbidden to speak his mind freely. There was no law to that effect but during those cruel years of Martial Law, you seal your lips or you are as good as dead […]
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Man’s most despicable show of cruelty at sea By Al S. Mendoza LET us go to the facts. Fact 1: A vessel from China has hit the rear part of a vessel from the Philippines on June 9. Fact 2: The Filipino vessel was anchored at Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea. Fact 3: […]
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Scams & ‘ghosts’ galore By Al S. Mendoza THE Kapa and PhilHealth scams are one and the same. Two sides of the coin with exact con-clothed features. They both steal money. Kapa fleeces people’s hard-earned dough, PhilHealth raids government coffers. The Kapa is illegal business disguised as religion. In this benighted country of ours, religion […]
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Fake as the ‘branded’ in Greenhills By Al S. Mendoza THIEVERY in government happens because of crooks it endlessly harbors. Crooks come in many forms. They are heads of agencies or any branch of government. They are government employees from the top down to the rank-and-file. They know the law like the palm of their […]