Victory By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. All Filipinos of good will may not but want and wait for the victory of the present administration in its avowed all-out war against the terrorists particularly in Mindanao. But one big and signal question is what costs would such a victory…

Trash talk By Marifi Jara If the government were to prosecute all the local officials around the country who have failed to do their administrative duties in implementing the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the Office of the Ombudsman would be trashed in heaps of cases. Nay, the files would…

One too many By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. On one hand, there is the national leadership who long since has been proudly and loudly pronouncing its resolve to clean the government it leads from the infamous graft and corruption that have become its expertise. Sometime last year or…

Unwitting punchline from imperious MLQ By Gerry Garcia AS expected following the trouncing defeat of pro-administration senators in the last polls, opposition senators are preparing to reopen the investigation of the “Hello Garci” vote-cheating controversy again, only three years remaining before the presidential elections in 2010. Revival of the “Hello…

Hope for the world’s poor By Jun Velasco JOE de V, Dagupeno, our  4th District congressman and Philippine speaker,  was  at center stage in Kuala Lumpur  during  the assemblage of top parliament leaders in the Association of East Asian Nations — the  ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. For a moment, you mused:…

New pathways to education By Gonzalo Duque HEARD the song “Honesty?” We want to dedicate it to most of our pubic officials.  Here goes, “Honesty, it’s a lonely word, everyone is so untrue.” If you read the national dailies these days, that guy whose name is Doble seems to be…

Awards for excellence By Sosimo Ma. Pablico If one indicator of   the quality of manpower in a government agency is the kind and number of awards received by its personnel for their accomplishments in research and development, then BPRE [Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension] may very well be among…

Psychological incapacity By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is an open secret that practically all marriages “annulled” by the government forward the ground of “Psychological incapacity” on the part of either or both spouses. It is also quite known that especially so in these “annulment” cases, the best…

Pangasinan subol By Marifi Jara They are the isko at iska from Pangasinan, living in Baguio for the meantime. That’s short for “iskolar ng bayan”, a moniker for students studying within the University of the Philippines (UP) System. And they are not forgetting their roots even as they move out…

Default mode By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The present administration must be in a default mode on prudence and the pursuant right judgments. It is not enough that it issues faulty Presidential Proclamations and shameful Executive Orders every now and then to the consternation of the Supreme Court….