POST PRANDIUM: Why do we have a large trade deficit?

Fernando Fajardo 03/24/2019

In most of the years since the last war, our imports exceeded our exports. What causes a trade deficit? What does it mean to the economy and to us? We can answer these questions this way. On…

NANAY SAYS: Outdoor education

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 03/23/2019

This year, I made a promise to myself to climb at least one mountain in Cebu every month. I am a “rebel returnee” of the outdoors. I parked my hiking shoes 10 years ago to give way…

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT: Quest for justice for Christine Silawan is on

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 03/22/2019

  Can a minor afford to kill a fellow minor in a most brutal way? Can a 17-year-old inflict 30 stab wounds alone, skin to the skull and remove some organs of his 16-year-old ex lover? Does…

MINDFULLY GREENIE: Greta in our midst

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 03/21/2019

  She is 16 years old – yet, she has already captured the imagination and inspired millions to protest and to call governments and private sector to reduce greenhouse gases and respond immediately to the climate crisis.…

PAST FORWARD: The water crisis of 1931 and today

Jobers Reynes Bersales 03/18/2019

It is quite interesting to see how then as now, the water level at Buhisan Dam has been an important gauge to determine whether we are in the midst of a water crisis, even though this 107-year-old…

NANAY SAYS: Light for Christine Lee

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/16/2019

My children came home yesterday from school bearing bad news. Antoinette, 5, said she learned about it from her classmate. She reported: “Naay namatay nga girl, Nanay. Wala na dila and things inside her body, gikaon sa…

MINDFULLY GREENIE: And, then there was none…

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 03/14/2019

One fine day, you wake up, open the faucet, and, horrors, there is not a drop of water that comes out. In a crisis situation, realizations prop up: one is admitting that you are woefully ill-prepared to…

FLOWERING OF THOUGHT: ‘Hoc est enim Corpus meum’ or ‘Against corporal punishment’

Jason A. Baguia 03/13/2019

“On the contrary, I am of the firm conviction that responsible parents can and have administered corporal punishment in a self-restrained manner, such that the children remember it not as an act of hate or abuse, but…

PAST FORWARD: An embarrassment of sex and riches?

Jobers Reynes Bersales 03/11/2019

  Coming on the heels of the most extraordinary meeting of all heads of Catholic bishops councils all over the world in the Vatican, the recent report of an alleged rape of a minor by a priest…

NANAY SAYS: Petrichor and Basadours

Cris Evert B. Lato-Ruffolo 03/09/2019

It was not the place I wanted to be in on a Wednesday morning, January 4, 2012. I was still on a vacation from my job in a non-government organization and I very much wanted to spend…

STRAIGHT TO THE POINT: Why is the Inayawan Brgy. Capt. uncooperative with the PNP?

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 03/08/2019

  Inayawan Barangay Captain Kirk Bryan Repollo demolished the galvanized fence being built up by the contractor of a police station’s building. He also threatened Police Regional office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) director Brigadier General Debold Sinas…

NANAY SAYS: Away from the city

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 03/02/2019

I decided to go back to trekking and mountain climbing this year to escape the city’s horrible traffic situation. I live in Liloan town so instead of heading to Cebu City — passing by the long, chaotic…

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