Five years of ‘opening a vein and bleeding’

Joel Ruiz Butuyan - @inquirerdotnet 10/26/2020

Exactly five years ago today, I began writing as an opinion columnist of this paper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI). It has been a weekly ritual of “open(ing) a vein and bleed(ing) onto a page,” as one…

Reshaping PH agriculture through farm tourism

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 11/10/2019

At the recent 6th Philippine Farm Tourism Conference held at the Marco Polo Plaza in Cebu City I was pleasantly surprised to hear that big landlords from different places across the country had joined small farm holders,…

Will the Philippines become a middle income class country?

Fernando Fajardo 02/03/2019

  To guide its work, the WB classifies countries into low income, lower middle income, upper middle income, and higher income. This started in 1962. In that year, it placed the Philippines at the lower middle-income class…

Close fight in the senate race

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 02/01/2019

    In line with the Radio Mindanao Network’s (RMN) commitment to raise public awareness and voters’ participation in the 2019 elections, it is again conducting surveys among its listeners as to their preferred candidates if the…

 Post-contract death and medical records on board the vessel 

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 01/30/2019

  A seafarer’s  illness which caused his post-repatriation death must be properly  documented  during the term of his contract in relation to death compensation benefits. As a general rule, the death of the seafarer  should occur during the effectivity of…

Bombs and fireworks 

Jason A. Baguia 01/29/2019

  Folly and terror and nothing more motivated the perpetrators of the recent bombing of the Cathedral of Jolo, and they have no business attaching their horrific deed to any political or religious cause, for violence upsets…

Conceiving a warehouse’s future

Jobers Reynes Bersales 01/28/2019

    Mixed-use commercial building, creative hub, food center, maritime museum, and night market. These are the five possible options presented by pairs of architecture students last Friday at the School of Architecture and Fine Arts (SAFAD)…

Too early

Sofia Aliño Logarta 11/29/2017

Recent updates on children’s concerns have highlighted the issue of teenage pregnancy. The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study stressed that “The victims of teenage pregnancy are the girl herself, her child, her parents and relatives and…

Will the underpass yield artifacts?

Jobers R. Bersales 11/29/2017

Not a few people have asked me this question even before the on-going, P683-million underpass project along N. Bacalso Avenue. This question brings to mind the numerous 14th-15th-century artifacts that we recovered—and the many, many more that…

Talking coffee

Rina Jimenez-David 11/28/2017

Coffee has a rich heritage in the Philippines. The first coffee tree was introduced in Lipa, Batangas in the 1740s by Spanish Franciscan monks, and so enthusiastically did farmers take up the challenge that the province soon…

A dark uncertain path

Raymund Fernandez 11/28/2017

If the rumour circulating turns out to be true, this might be the last Kinutil for a while. I am talking, of course, about the rumour of an impending declaration of a revolutionary government in our country.…

Federalism, shall we go for it?

Fernando Fajardo 11/03/2017

Federalism is a system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a constituent political unit. In this case, the federal or national government is the central authority while the constituent political unit…

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