The party-list system and the seafarers’ votes

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 04/30/2019

  The votes of the  Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), both landbased and seabased, are now being courted by groups aiming political seats through the party-list representation. Around 134 groups will vie for 59 seats allotted for the…

Local government fiscal performance: the case of Dalaguete, Cebu

Fernando Fajardo 04/24/2019

Fiscal prudence requires that government, whether local or national, is constraint to raising taxes, expenditures, deficits, debts, and other liabilities only within affordable and sustainable limits. Fiscal prudence goes with the responsibility of the local government units…

Tuberculosis among seafarers

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 04/23/2019

Seafarers by nature of their work are exposed to a variety of occupational hazards making exposure to biological agents and the concomitant risk of communicable diseases extremely  high. Because of their nature of work, seafarers are bound…

Wood for the Mass from Pre-War Talamban

Jobers Reynes Bersales 04/22/2019

I am pretty certain the people of Talamban do not remember this anymore. But way before the war, there was this tradition of bringing pieces of wood to the altar of Cebu’s Catholic churches on Good Friday.…

International trade and Philippine economic growth

Fernando Fajardo 04/21/2019

No one country has all the necessary resources or capacity to satisfy the need of their own people. However, by developing and exploiting their domestic resources, one country can produce a surplus, and trade them for the…

Semana Santa

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 04/20/2019

My childhood and adolescent years were spent in villages in Cebu and Leyte, where our neighbors are our relatives and our relatives are our neighbors. In Leyte, that meant going to the chapel above the hill every…

No room for indifference

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 04/18/2019

If there is one thing that education should inculcate in a person, it should be fostering deep love and strong sense of responsibility for our country, our community, our family, and our planet, and embedding the attendant…

ANGKLA’s bill in delaying payment of  award resurrected in  Magna Carta

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 04/16/2019

  “Aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo.” The manning agencies resurrected in the proposed Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers a bill earlier filed by ANGKLA Partylist wherein the proceeds of execution shall be deposited in…

How about a Homo cebuensis?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 04/15/2019

  The announcement last week that what archaeologists for nearly a decade have called the ‘Callao Man’ has now been determined to be a separate species called ‘Homo luzonensis’ has put the Philippines once again on the…

Understanding the Philippine poverty report

Fernando Fajardo 04/14/2019

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently reported the country’s official poverty statistics for the first semester of 2018. This report provides the estimates of poverty incidence using income data from the first visit of the Family Income…

100 years of Cebu City Public Library

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 04/13/2019

The country’s only 24/7 public library is 100 years old today, April 13, 2019. It is a joy to note that 10 decades ago, on the same date, April 13, a Cebu branch of the National Library…

Thesa Marie Ygay: another victim of brutal killing

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 04/12/2019

  It is painful to imagine that a 14-year old beautiful lady who was supposed to be protected and loved but was brutally killed and buried in a septic tank. Thesa Marie Ygay, 14, Grade 8 student…

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