Basketball is not our world sport By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE talk of the town these days in our country is about the FIBA U19 Basketball Championship and the coming World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight unification title bout between Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and the undefeated American Keith…
Sports Eye
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page on www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. The Ship of FriendshipAuthor Unknown A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able…
Learnings in Life
The challenge of flooding By Leonardo Micua ABALANG ko no onsabi la’y balon mayor, nabalang la’y delap”, an exasperated woman vendor on Galvan Street whined just a few meters away from us on day one of the administration of Mayor Brian Lim. We did not give this a hoot as…
Random Thoughts
The “LP patriots” dilemma By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE are midway into the term of the Duterte administration and we have not seen a cooling period between the President and his detractors since he took his oath for a 6-year term. Destabilization efforts to unseat the President have been unceasing…
Punchline
Gonzalo on fire! By Gonzalo Duque I am writing this column while in Pennsylvania, a northeastern U.S. State and one of the 13 colonies of this great American nation. Pennsylvania’s largest city is Philadelphia, which played a key role in American history because it was here where the American founding…
Playing with Fire
Man’s most despicable show of cruelty at sea By Al S. Mendoza LET us go to the facts. Fact 1: A vessel from China has hit the rear part of a vessel from the Philippines on June 9. Fact 2: The Filipino vessel was anchored at Recto Bank in the…
General Admission
Quincentennial Imperatives and Quintessential Beauties By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THIS is my third attempt to write about how the church can be a source of creativity for its remaining believers. On all attempts, I am intermittently distracted unable to give a coherent ending. As I write, the fire tree on…
G Spot
POC leadership in limbo, again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT ALREADY happened before, and it’s happening again. The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the only authority that can send our national athletes to compete in any international events thru the recommendation…
