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…

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…

 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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Why Lito & Bong won, and why JV & Jinggoy lost By Al S. Mendoza FROM showbiz, two won but the other two lost. The winners were Lito Lapid and Bong Revilla, losers JV Ejercito and Jinggoy Estrada. Usually, actors are virtual winners for two main reasons: Popularity and name…