THE Catholic Church, seeing that the end game is near for the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill, has upped the ante as far as its opposition to the passage of the measure is concerned by holding massive rallies and exerting electoral pressure on lawmakers.
One such protest…
NOWHERE in our national history has there been a time when our people felt so threatened by perceived debased morality than it is today. Everyone appears to be looking at each other in the eye, as if hoping to find the cause in them rather than in their own.
However, it seems that a…
BEVERLY R. was what one may call “crush ng bayan” in the small engineering department of Southwestern University (SWU) where I spent my early years in college. She was fair, pretty and “mahinhin,” but was also a member of a sorority attached to a middling fraternity actively recruiting members…
PRESIDENT Aquino continues to draw flak for what he did to former vice president Noli de Castro during the anniversary celebration of ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol last week. the critics said the President was rude in his choice of forum to hit back at de Castro, who had been making snide remarks about…
WHEN Cardinal Ricardo Vidal flexed a muscle, warning of a backlash against 2013 candidates who support the Reproductive Health Bill, some people dismissively said the Catholic vote is a myth.
If the church vote means a solid bloc from spiritual leaders who dictate ballot content, it doesn…
ONE time, his joke was that we’d end up kissing each other when you close the opinion pages of this paper. some days of the week in 2004, you read “Breakfast at Noon” on the left corner, and “Meanwhile” on the right, although I’m not sure the latter was worth the while.
MAYOR Michael Rama wants to restrict cargo vehicles at South Road Properties to prevent accidents.
Care for the people far outweighs the benefits of commerce.
MALAPASCUA-DIVING.COM (Thresher Shark Divers, Malapascua Island), as a website that promotes Malapascua island in Daanbantayan town, is objective enough to inform would-be guests of what to expect from a place that lacks much of the amenities found in such a fully developed tourist destination…
THE island province of Cebu is celebrating its 443rd founding anniversary with Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia as tacit witness to what Cebu has become in almost four and a half century of existence. In fact, she is the only one who knows Cebu like the palm of her hands.
Even if the province is…
IF YOU have a day appointment in Mactan on Sunday, I highly recommend that you postpone it in the evening or you be there before 5 a.m. even if your appointment is at 10 a.m.
Because you see, the two bridges and major roads in Mactan will be closed to traffic between 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. for…
I LOST my best client the other day. he wasn’t the easiest person to deal with, as even family members would readily attest, but you knew you’d never go astray if you followed his directions because he walked the straight path.
THIS is getting to be a habit of President Aquino: insulting the host of the social affair to which he’s invited.
Last April 23, at the 16th national forum of Philippine Press Institute, President Aquino flogged media for “crab mentality” and negativism.
MUCH has been said about next year’s polls, Cebu City Mayor Mike Rama’s row with Rep. Tomas Osmeña, and the graft cases filed against Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia. allow me to talk about sports for a change.
The Aboitiz Group of Companies is not only a name to reckon with in power generation…
THE Talisay City residents who woke last Monday to the seawater rushing into their shanties won’t be amused by one Malacañang official’s glib advice. if you want to avoid weather disasters, he said, follow the weather bureau on Twitter.
Fortunately, the affected residents—estimated at 138…
IT SEEMS that most of the earnings of Filipinos are spent on consumer products. In essence, it means that the Philippine economy revolves around consumerism. the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is said to have advised that Filipinos who desire to be entrepreneurs “may find opportunities in the…
I AGREE. President Noynoy Aquino was impolite and grating when he chose to deliver his tirade against Kabayan Noli de Castro during the 25th anniversary celebration of“TV Patrol.” Platforms were available to him other than the ABS-CBN stage to attack de Castro. he is, after all, the president of…
IN HIS speech during the 25th anniversary of ABS-CBN’s primetime newscast TV Patrol, President Noynoy Aquino chided news anchor and former vice president Noli de Castro for being critical of his administration. Noli was not around when PNoy spoke. Mao unta toy komentaryo nga harap-harapan….
WEATHER forecasters were stunned when 60-kilometer-per-hour winds and pounding rain brought about by typhoon “Gener” struck Metro Manila, Calabarzon and Central Luzon late Sunday night.
Weather forecasters are supposed to watch weather disturbances closely.
ALL it takes is a drought to drive some people out of their minds. Such a thought, dreary enough to pave a summer of discontent all the way to the desert, can be tricky enough as the trickle of common sense. “The drought is causing all sorts of problems,” begins a joke. “One swimmer was so…
LAST I wrote about it, I worried about what government could do to control the spread of HIV-Aids (Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) when it could hardly control the spread of a simpler threat like dengue. the spread of HIV- Aids is a function of human weakness…
WHEN it got obvious that the “yes’ votes had lost in Saturday’s plebiscite on the splitting of Barangay Guadalupe in two, former congressman Antonio Cuenco, who authored the law carving out “Barangay Banawa-Englis” from the mother barangay, talked about the “Birhen sa Guadalupe” not allowing…
THERE should be difference in perception of criminality in the region between actual crimes committed and their severity.
It may happen that the number of crimes committed has increased, but the rise is in petty crimes, which did not form a threat to people’s life and limb. But it may…
THE criticism against television news anchor Noli de Castro says one thing: it is not “okay” for a journalist to return to his profession after a stint in government.
This was what de Castro, who is former vice president, and his network, ABS-CBN, faced when President Benigno Aquino III…
PRESIDENT Noynoy Aquino’s stinging rebuke of former vice president and ABS-CBN news anchor Noli de Castro during the 25th anniversary celebration of the network’s TV Patrol inevitably raises the question of whether he is being overly sensitive to criticism. Has PNoy become onion-skinned?
JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima may have thought that if she’d be among three nominees of the Judicial and Bar Council for Supreme Court chief justice, she’d be home free.
To get there, she must get into the short list or she’d lose the chance to be the first woman SC chief justice.