It’s about political will   UNTIL 30 years ago, welcoming and celebrating the New Year was about fun, and lighting firecrackers was as harmless as the sparklers. They were ear-splitting enough and seeming temporary deafness was about the only possible harm to one’s health. There were still fingers burned but…

We are giving way to the Message of His Excellency, Socrates B. Villegas, Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan, on the occasion of the world’s celebration of Christmas. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Christmas in the Philippines this year 2014 carries an added reason for excitement. In a few weeks Pope Francis will be visiting…

Pope Francis on Christmas FOR too long, we have witnessed how materialism and crass commercialism have led us to lose the true significance of Christmas in our lives. To help bring us back to the path of how Christmas should touch our lives, we are reprinting below the words of…

Now, it’s the “Hoodlums in Uniforms”   WE have seen enough of our elected public officials stealing not a few thousands but millions of taxpayers’ money through the pork barrel and other similar funds but with different nomenclature, i.e., Development Funds, Barangay Social Fund, etc. that provided our elected officials…

Hoodlums in robes NOT too long ago, Gov. Amado Espino Jr. minced no words when he criticized the judiciary for harboring “Hoodlums in Robes” (HIR) who are obviously in the pockets of drug syndicates. He cited the number of drug cases being dismissed for the smallest technicality even as he…