The Binay Gambit

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/11/2014

Puerte na gyung bukal sa kaldero sa politika.  (The political pot is boiling) and pundits who have been glued in discussions related to the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), plunder cases against 3 politically powerful senators, their key…

Revitalizing CICC

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/04/2014

The bid of the Mandaue City government led by Mayor Jonas Cortes to acquire control of the mothballed Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) has gained traction after a burglary occurred in the facility last week. Built in…

Dramatic Irony

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/28/2014

It’s the fourth Monday of July, the date prescribed by the 1987 Constitution as the time when the President of the Republic goes to the Plenary Hall of the Batasan Pambansa complex to deliver the State of…

Severe storm signals

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/24/2014

Typhoon “Henry” (international name: Matmo) left the country yesterday but even before we could say “good riddance,” the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) spotted a new weather disturbance east of the Visayas and Bicol…

Slaughter of the innocents

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/21/2014

I was still half asleep Thursday morning when I heard that a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down by a surface to air missile in Eastern Ukraine, killing all passengers on board. Thinking it was related to…

Wakeup call for BO-PK councilors

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/17/2014

With news reports that a defeated candidate for barangay captain identified with the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK) filed an administrative complaint against Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama and 13 other city officials, political observers right away pointed…

Fleeting celebration

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/14/2014

One bit of good news that came like a bit of fresh air but did not quite get rid of the collective resentment over the pork barrel, Malampaya fund scam and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), is…

Will P-Noy face impeachment?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 07/07/2014

Marcos loyalist Oliver Lozano is at it again, filing an impeachment complaint that is bound for the trash bin. This was the media’s implied assessment when it tracked down Lozano’s second impeachment complaint against President Benigno Aquino…

Bad start in plunder suit

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/29/2014

The move of prosecutors from the Office of the Ombudsman to amend the information they filed with the Sandiganbayan in relation to the plunder cases of Senators Ramon Revilla, Jr., Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile…

The Malaysian model

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/23/2014

In a previous column, I wrote about Malaysia’s great strides in the cooperative movement through a mandatory co-op education in secondary schools which began 44 years ago. School cooperatives in Malaysia were set up in 1968 through…

Mainstreaming museums

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/05/2014

Cebu is becoming the national center of a host of festivals that showcase the country’s cultural heritage and one breakthrough celebration that is set to become a must-experience for tourists both local and foreign is “Gabii sa…

Insulting textbook

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/02/2014

Barely three weeks into Manila’s successful hosting of the 23rd World Economic Forum on East Asia (WEF), ambitious Pinoys basking in the glow of the event were rudely awakened by reports that a primary textbook in Hong…

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