By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao has stopped giving his money to the people. He has said it himself. “I have to stop, but only temporarily, though,” he said in Tagalog. “I do not wish to disturb the relief operations being done now by our police and soldiers.” He was…
By Leoanrdo Micua TOO bad, Typhoon Odette came just after Mayor Brian Lim was promised by President Duterte to extend financial assistance for the construction of a hospital in Dagupan. Methinks that with the big swath of destruction left by the typhoon in some parts of the Visayas and…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo AS the year ends, I find that I have not changed. I am still a mess. I am still the same person who can find order in my own mess. I know this for eternity as I try to clean up the “mess” around me,…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano IT is sad, indeed, that the status of women in the Philippines has taken a downhill trend according to a recent Philippine Commission Women report. Our country has tried various strategies for the empowerment of women: Women In Development in the early seventies, Women…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. REPORTS cropped up weeks ago that United States will not send diplomatic or official representation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games in February due to the ongoing “genocide” as described by U.S. and other human rights abuses especially the Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern…
By Rex Catubig POPPING up amid the heartbreaking stories in the wake of Typhoon Odette, is the birth of a baby in an ambulance rocked by rampaging wind and rain. Stories of the persistence of life under dire straits and the most inhospitable circumstances are stuff legends are made…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. LAST week, I was invited by the sub-committee of the Technical Working Group of the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) as a stakeholder in the discussion on whether or not to rescind the contentious provision in its Resolution…
By Al S. Mendoza IT’S not actually candidate versus candidate. It is voter versus candidate. That’s the real pairing. Why is that? All elections are similar. You will not notice any difference every single time. It’s as invisible as the wind. The real duel I mean: The voter versus…
By Leonardo Micua THE withdrawal of President Duterte from the senatorial race, just a few minutes after his long time aide Senator Christopher Lawrence Go, made good on his earlier promise to back out from the presidential race, did not surprise us at all. From the very beginning, we viewed…
By Virgnia Jasmin Pasalo A good friend of mine, Minello Saporito, posted on his FB timeline, “The jugglers were at the King’s court and they made the courtesans burst with laughter. In what way? They, that were crippled, ugly and hump-headed, mocked normal people.” Most people seem to get…
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