Manila archdiocese allows ashes on forehead

Jovic Yee - Philippine Daily Inquirer 02/22/2020

The Archdiocese of Manila clarified that priests in the city may still put ashes on the forehead of devotees despite a Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines recommendation that the clergy tweak the Lenten practice by sprinkling…

LGUs urged to consider PPP as option for infra, dev’t projects

CNU Intern, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/14/2018

LOCAL government units in Central Visayas are encouraged to look at public-private partnerships (PPP) to fund some of their projects in their respective areas. Jomel Gutierrez of the Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Service of PPP Center…

MAO BA?

MAO BA? 01/23/2018

ISLAND TRAVEL OPTION Not a few travel enthusiasts were excited to learn that Air Juan opened its seaplane terminal at the South Road Properties (SRP). A netizen named Van Blantez wrote: “Tan.awa kuya Fred. OMG may tang…

Doing nothing is not an option

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 01/14/2018

We are living in an archipelago of 7,641 islands, including Cebu Island, plus 167 smaller islands, which include Mactan, Bantayan, Malapascua, Olango and the Camotes Islands. Our Constitution mandates the State to “protect the nation’s marine wealth…

The Edsa option

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/21/2017

People opposed to extrajudicial killings seem to have had it with the murderous anti-illegal drugs war waged by the Philippine National Police after Caloocan City law enforcers killed a 17-year-old grade 11 student in a raid against…

Viable option

Editorial 05/31/2017

Cebu City Hall may want to explain to Teresita Ruiz, a resident of Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City, why the trees that line up along the proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route will have to go. She said…

DINO SAYS MARTIAL LAW IN THE VISAYAS STILL AN OPTION

Calvin D. Cordova, Nestle L. Semilla 05/30/2017

Extending the martial law in the Visayas remains an option. Anticipating the possibility that President Rodrigo Duterte will decide to extend martial law to the Visayan regions, representatives of different sectors in the Visayas yesterday convened to…

Viable transport option

Editorial 05/22/2017

Will the proposed Light Railway Transit (LRT) system materialize in the six years of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term as promised by his Presidential Assistant to the Visayas Michael Dino? Dino said there is a company that is…

An option

Editorial 05/16/2017

Whatever comes out of today’s public hearing on the cutting/earthballing of trees along the route of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, one thing is sure: the long gestating project won’t be suspended if only to spare…

ROTC should stay optional

Nestor Ramirez 11/29/2016

I like the Reserve Officers Training Course (ROTC) now but I believe it should stay optional. I witnessed how the ROTC evolved from its rather notorious rep until it was made optional starting 2002 and what it…

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