Never-ending coop story

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/16/2015

The Philippine cooperative movement is celebrating 100 years in October 2015. Judgeing by the schedule of activities organized by the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and coop enterprises all over the country, the sector will be fully engaged…

Bill Gates’ super-secret visit

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/13/2015

Advocates of the Reproductive Health Law must be chafing that Bill Gates visited Manila without ringing their doors. After all, the call to the nation’s capital by the co-founder of Microsoft, considered as the world’s wealthiest man…

Definitely good news

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/06/2015

Like many people who usually hie off to different places outside Cebu, I had wanted to go on a retreat to Liptong Woodland in Bacong, Negros Oriental for a change of scenery and some quiet time during…

Co-operatives: the road to peace

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/26/2015

Mainstream media together with government information officers gathered Tuesday at an uptown hotel to interact with the top echelon of the Co-operative Development Authority, which for the first time in more than five years converged with a…

New man at the helm of co-op development agency

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/23/2015

The appointment of Orlando Ravanera as chief of the Co-operative Development Authority CDA has taken many people in the co-op sector by surprise because they thought filling-up the top post in the CDA Board of Administrators was…

Next in Line

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/19/2015

Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama is in Japan for the World Congress on Disaster Risk Reduction and if reports are any indication, the local chief executive was distracted by events in Makati City wherein Mayor Jejomar Erwin…

‘What kind of food do you eat?’

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/05/2015

If not for the Mamasapano bloodbath that claimed the lives of 44 police commandos and unraveled the shadow chain of command in the Philippine National Police, the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) would have already been hammered…

Vidal’s call for P-Noy to step down

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/19/2015

Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal is embroiled in a controversy involving a statement he read last Friday during his post-birthday celebration, an event which coincided with the meeting of the National Transformation Council in Vidal’s retirement…

Can the MILF be trusted with the BBL?

02/12/2015

“I request fairness and justice for my men!” Thus did Acting Philippine National Police (PNP) Director-General Leonardo Espina emotionally underline the need for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to explain why its commandos mutilated and slaughtered…

P-Noy’s absence unnoticed in co-op event

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/12/2015

The Philippine co-operative movement marked 100 years in fitting ceremonies held in the capital city last February 5 and I wonder if the Office of the President had logged the milestone in the Chief Executive’s calendar of…

A suicide mission?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/09/2015

Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas has been going around the country to condole with the families of the police commandos who perished in the Mamasapano massacre. By personally conveying his sympathies with words and financial…

8 truths in the Mamasapano massacre?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/05/2015

The sorrow, frustration and anger over the deaths of 44 SAF members in the hands of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and their classmates wearing reversible jackets bearing the BIFF insignia, according to a columnist writing…

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