Hong Kong political outrage is familiar to us By Jun Velasco “Democracy cannot be safe anywhere unless it is safe everywhere,” E.C. McKenzie FIRST, the good news. The country’s sports world is ecstatic with the gold medal triumph of Fil-Am Daniel Caluag at the Asian Games. Do we…
Mark C makes a mark! By Gonzalo Duque YES sirreee! Former Congressman Mark Cojuangco said many good things about his supposed “katunggali”—Guv’nor Spines. Well, literally, he as NPC gubernatorial candidate faces Board Member Amado “Pogi” Espino III. But everybody knows that ang kalaban ay si Gob alyas Spines. How…
Disaster of monstrous proportions By Al S. Mendoza WE were one among 45 nations that vied for 499 gold medals in the just-ended Incheon Asian Games in South Korea. We had 150 athletes entered in 27 disciplines, with basketball being the most important of all, of course. But we…
Marijuana, still no proof for medicinal cure By Bebot Villar THERE are renewed discussions on the use of marijuana in the country for medical purposes. This time, ang mga doctors ang may gustong malaman if marijuana can really cure certain ailments. Last Tuesday, ang Philippine College of Physicians, the Philippine…
Selling the unsellable By Oscar V. Cruz RECENTLY, full-page advertisements were carried by certain local broadsheets with the curious and intriguing partisan political call blatantly addressed “TO OUR COUNTRYMEN”said to be published at the instance of the so curiously called “MOVEMENT FOR REFORM AND MOMENTUM” (MORE2COME) as the ad sponsor. The members of…
Dreaming the impossible dream? By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS of this writing (Friday), our lone survivor in boxing for gold medal lightweight, Charly Suarez, is fighting Mongolian Dorjnyambuu Otgondalala, 17th ranked in the world. Our three semifinalist pugs headed by Olympian and 2013 Southeast Asia Games flyweight gold medalist…
A ‘local’ perspective on attaining the MDGs By Johanne R. Macob FOURTEEN years have passed since leaders of 189 countries met at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit at the UN headquarters in New York. They agreed to liberate their people from extreme poverty, among other deprivations by year 2015,…
DEPARTMENT OF POOR HIGHWAYS. What’s with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) nowadays? Instead of fixing roads, it seems it is wasting a lot of the taxpayers’ money by destroying newly paved roads only to build new ones but ignore those that badly need repair. A mayor in…
A mission for Abono and Sinag By Ermin Grcia Jr. READ this news item that was published in a daily broadsheet: “The Department of Agriculture said Sunday typhoon Mario and Luis, which struck a week earlier, cost the Philippines P1.14 billion in farm output. The department said…
Marriage Nullity By Oscar V. Cruz FOR a start, it is not only right but even necessary to address the rather big distinction between “Marriage Annulment” and “Marriage Nullity”. Reason: They are radically different in terms of the nature and implications of “Annulment” and “Nullity”. Briefly stated, the said “Annulment” has reference to a marriage that…
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