September, then and now

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 09/19/2019

September brings in a flurry of activities to remind us of the distant past which  brought us into the present and all the hurdles that come in the package, and which should compel us to do what…

Employment rate in July 2019 at 94.6 percent

Fernando Fajardo 09/18/2019

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the country’s employment rate in July 2019 was estimated at 94.6 percent or an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. Three years earlier in 2016, when the present administration started, the…

Gift of each other

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 09/14/2019

“Do you become wealthy when you are a journalist?” asked the Grade 7 student from a private school who visited the newsroom along with 30 other campus journalists on a Friday afternoon. “It depends on how you…

Mambaling flooding: When the cart is put before the horse

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 09/13/2019

With the admission of a Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) official that the delayed drainage project in Mambaling was the cause of the waist-deep flooding in the area, we have now found proof of what…

The political economy of rice farming

Fernando Fajardo 09/11/2019

Rice, along with corn, is the main staple of the Filipinos. In average, a Filipino consumes about 100 kilos of rice a year. That would be about two kilos per week. An examination of the artifacts unearth…

Flowers as tribute to deceased Filipino seafarers

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 09/10/2019

Wreathe thrown into the sea is a tradition that carry to all the deceased seafarers the message of love and gratitude as the flowers embody life and resurrection. The wreath’s circular shape represents eternity for it has no beginning and…

Regarding Duterte on the Quincentennial

Jobers Reynes Bersales 09/09/2019

  President Rodrigo Duterte has a point, one that he has always been consistently pursuing. His latest pronouncement that there is no need to celebrate 500 years of Christianity is but a reiteration of his dislike for…

Bilibid Mafia

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/08/2019

The Senate probe on the botched implementation and interpretation of RA 10592 otherwise known as the Good Conduct Time Allowance is supposed to review the law that reduces the prison sentences of persons deprived of liberty PDL…

My Benedictine story

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 09/07/2019

You won’t believe it. But there was a time in my teenage years that I wanted to be a nun. I was influenced by two Benedictine sisters: Sister Mary John Mananzan and Sister Alexis Remoroza. I started…

 Who is behind Faeldon’s action? 

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 09/06/2019

It is still fresh in our minds that when former military man Nicanor Faeldon was designated as the chief of the Bureau of Customs, the agency was subjected to a vast controversy of corruption.  Tons of shabu…

Frolic in the floods

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 09/05/2019

My sister shared video clips of young and adults alike frolicking in flooded areas in Cebu City last Sunday, the 1st day of September. There was fun in the air. No one seemed concerned about drowning, contracting…

The good conduct time allowance and heinous crime

Fernando Fajardo 09/04/2019

Most of us are not lawyers but given that most of our actions or inaction may transgress any of the existing laws in the country, it is just right for us to know a modicum of our…

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