‘Editorial’ Archives
Fare reduction
Hapless passengers remain helpless in their sufferance from arrogant transport operators who pretend numb and dumb from the series of fuel price rollbacks. The price of fuel had gone down but fares remain at increased levels. Calls had been voiced from some concerned sectors but the transport operators are adamant in effecting fare rollback. These transport operators had arrogantly set a unilateral condition for oil companies to hit a low price index before they would implement a fare rollback. [...]
US submarine’s arrival in Subic
The arrival of the most modern submarine of the US Navy last Sunday to the former US naval base in Subic could bolster our self-confidence amid the standoff at Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Island). Directly or indirectly, it will serve as a deterrent in the West Philippine sea dispute over the bullying, intruding and literally occupying a part of our territory by China. The USS North Carolina (SSN-777), the most modern attack submarine in the world, has been deployed to the Western Pacific [...]
W.A.R.: Waray art in recognition
Impressive. Aesthetically superb. Unbelievable. Yes, this Waray area is replete with talents at par with the master crafters in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao. The skillful young ones and young once of Eastern Visayas are coming together for a no-holds-bar expression of ideals and principles in form of art, music and sports. A show of craftsmanship, prowess and talent, the Waray Art Revolution (W.A.R.) events this week at Jones and Sen. Enage Streets in Tacloban City are must-see for the public [...]
Hot and hotter
No need for a thermometer for us to know that the temperature is very hot; we just have to feel it. We wake up in the morning and take our bath, but right after that, we will notice that our bodies are already perspiring profusely. This heat intensifies as the day moves on, even if the sun doesn’t show at all due to cloudy skies. With a glaring sun above, the more that the heat penetrates, lingering till sundown, even up to the evening when people would have difficulty sleeping due to the [...]
`Point of No Return’
Impeached Chief Justice Renato C. Corona has reached this point, time and space in the over 30-day impeachment court hearings filed against him for culpable violation of the Constitution, graft and corruption, etc. Indeed he has reached the point of no return but to personally face the impeachment court and “bare all” what needs to be done to cleanse his increasingly damaged reputation caused by this historic impeachment trial. He has no choice, it appears. The public heaved a sigh of [...]
Alarming Climate Change
The negative impact of climate change, especially on developing countries like us, has now reached a point where authorities and economic experts have sounded alarm about its consequences on agriculture and food production of many countries around the world. But the most vulnerable of all are the developing countries, especially those that depend on agriculture for their sustenance. Recently, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has also voice the same alarm that if not a sustained and determined [...]
Lesson learned on China’s threats: Better keep your real friends nearby
China was known as a sleeping giant in the 70’s. The giant has awakened, no longer asleep, but is up and about roaring and making its presence felt, known and recognized by its neighbors. Nowadays, it is feared, not because it has a large standing army but because it is a potential superpower second only to the United States. It occupies 9.6 million square kilometers and stands as the world’s second-largest country by land area. People ask, “Why is China interested in a shoal or [...]
Bare
So much had been said about the tomfoolery of Chief Justice Renato Corona and the House panel of prosecutors had showed evidence to prove the allegations in the articles of impeachment. The Senate sitting as an impeachment court had received voluminous records and documents apart from testimonies of witnesses presented by the prosecution and the defense. Much of the allegations had been fought outside the impeachment court, with the chief respondent belying and denying every allegation that [...]
Exhaust diplomatic effort, strive for credible defense
The current standoff between this country and China over the Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Island), which is believed sitting atop vast oil, gas and mineral deposits, should be pressed with exhausted diplomacy and negotiations up to the very limit. At the same time bringing the dispute to the International Court is one way of showing to the world that we abide by international law and respect it. But diplomacy alone even bringing the matter to the International Court would never solicit respect [...]
Celebration of joy and thanksgiving
The Palo Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lord’s Transfiguration transforms this day into a more solemn place of worship, thus exclusive to the first thousand registered guests and ecclesiastical dignitaries, as the Roman Catholic faithfuls observe the much-awaited enthronement of the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Palo, His Grace Most Rev. John Forrosuelo Du, DD of Bantayan Island, Cebu. Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary Archbishop Guiseppe Pinto will lead hundreds of clerics in [...]
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