Barangay evils: Drugs and corruption THERE is no more debate about illegal drugs, it being a major election issue in the coming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. The candidates themselves are cognizant of this. More than 98 percent already took drug tests as recommended by PDEA and the PNP to…

A vindication and a lesson WE hail the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the decision of the Court of Appeals absolving former Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan and former Provincial Housing and Urban Development Officer Alvin Bigay of administrative liability as determined by the  Ombudsman in 2014 over alleged illegal…

SK and drugs LAST week, a former chairman of a Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) unit in Manila was arrested in a buy-bust operation by the police. So wonder no more why we never heard of any barangay, town/city or the provincial chapter of the SK that denounced, at the very least,…

Finally, hope for the youth SUDDENLY, and hopefully, Dr. Jose Rizal’s trite statement and idiom that spoke of his faith in the youth — “The youth is the hope of the motherland.” — will finally find true meaning in the next SK elections. For decades, the country took to the…

Deadly crisis in the family THE response of families to the reported shortage of human anti-rabies vaccine in the province and in the country is what will make the difference if the reported shortage will result in a deadly crisis or not. The non-availability of human anti-rabies vaccine is like…