The late Dr. Ado was a sportsman By Gonzalo Duque IN case you don’t know, our late brother, Dr. Salvador “Ado” Tiongson Duque, was, in his own right, a great sportsman. In his teens and early 20’s and 30’s, he was a basketball player. He and former Mayor Al Fernandez, together with…

Pointers on Clerical Discipline By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD Notwithstanding the belief and stance that most of the Filipinos are constituent members of the Catholic Church, that the Country has a good number of Catholic priest assigned to Parishes, Schools and other Church agencies, and that Filipino Catholics are wherefore…

The media in the midst of the crimes By Roselle P. Gale STORIES of crimes and violence have been bombarding us the past weeks. With all of these bloody scenes being beamed out from our television screens, it seems that we are getting used to the carnage. Thus, the result…

Bombed bus not just a terrorist attack By Jun Velasco WHEN we wrote here about an idea – earnestly being pushed by a close kin (Tony Rala) – about the need to install CCTV facilities in passenger buses and other means of public transport, we didn’t know that in a…

A “pat” on the back By Gonzalo Duque THERE is no doubt the province is making big strides in the cleaning of our river systems, thanks to Gov. Amado Spines Espino and his task force led by Col. Pat Orduna and Task Force Kalikasan top honcho Tom Cabigas. You would…

Poor DILG By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THE DILG is definitely not poor because it does not have the needed funds to satisfactorily pay its personnel, to acceptably finance it operations. The DILG is certainly neither poor for not having the money to run all its affiliated agencies, to undertake…

Kingdoms, Filipino-style By Marifi Jara NAMPULA, Mozambique– Over dinner with a Filipina from Mindanao (living here for many years now, first as a volunteer worker then for a private company) and a couple of friends from Europe (well-travelled though never been to the Philippines but they do have friends who…

Try Tony Rala’s idea By Jun Velasco AMID the nonstop wave of criminality worldwide, a close kin, former adman-turned evangelist Antonio Rala came up with a simple but, in our view, powerful scheme to preempt criminal acts in buses, jeepneys, including their terminals. Couched in a letter addressed to DOTC Usec Dante…

Hail P’Noy, Mar, Liberal Party! By Gonzalo Duque IN case you’d think the ngasngasan sa city hall is all bad, think again. It’s good for our democratic check and balance dynamics. Fight is better than onor-onor, it augurs for checking abuse by the authority in power. Mabuhay ka, Vice Mayor…

Death Penalty: Here we go again! By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THERE are more and more criminals in the Country. There are more and more heinous crimes done. There is more and more fear in the streets, in the community. Murders are ordinary events. Rapes are no longer big news….