‘Opinion’ Archives
Imitations
It has finally come to the government’s attention that many of the Chinese products that proliferate and are sold cheaply in the market particularly in the so-called “Taiwanese stores” are of poor quality, some of which pose as health hazards due to their workmanship and toxic materials used. Such notice from the government is rather late. It’s been for years, even decades, that such products have been around. In fact, our people know how inferior these products are. They just frown [...]
Handful of ashes
Ashes will be traced, in form of a cross on foreheads in Wednesday rites that start off :Lent Slum dweller “ walang ngipin at salawal, drug addict, jeepeny driver to embattled chief justice get the same reminder: “Remember man that you are dust . And unto dust you will return.” “Death plucks my ears and says: ‘Live – I am coming”, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote on his 90th birthday. Death also comes to presidents. Assassin [...]
Senate should pass bill on waiver of bank deposits for gov’t officials
Today’s weather in Tacloban (nearby places), according to PAGASA, will be partly cloudy to at times cloudy with isolated rash (rain shower). From www.weather-forecast.com, viewers are told that while there will be “some clouds” in these places this morning and afternoon, tonight will see a clear sky. The “clear” weather outlook will continue until tomorrow morning and afternoon but rain showers will be in by evening. Now, this may not happen at all. All we have is a forecast of [...]
Word war
The on-going trial of the impeached Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is getting nasty. This obscenity is borne out of the fact by the tirades thrown against each other between the beleaguered Chief Justice and the President of the Philippines. * * * Indecent this may appear considering that both occupy responsible positions – the President, the leader of the nation, and CJ the head of the court of last resort, positions that demand the highest degree of competence, moral [...]
Another set of agricultural production indicators
This is part of the series in this column devoted to an assessment of the region’s economic performance in 2011. Rice production has been mentioned here. In today’s column it will be fish, livestock and poultry production. While 2011 was a good year for aquaculture (compared with 2010 production) with a substantial 20.3 percent increase as shown in the 2011 preliminary data of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics Office, commercial fishing declined by 10.6% and municipal fishing by [...]
ETA-AIR now in Region 8
Eagle Trans-Asia Airways (ETA-AIR) is the newest airline to operate in Region 8. To reduce the long and stressful travel by land or sea, ETA-AIR introduces new means of transportation by air to provinces that are presently accessible by land or sea travel only. Most of its routes are not yet serve by other airlines in the Philippines. The Eagle Trans-Asia Airways mission is to provide passengers and cargo charterer with superb airline service at competition rate and taking into account the [...]
Forgiving
Faithful of the universal Catholic church start today forty days of reflection, retreat and renewal in what is known as the Lenten season. The season affords every Catholic to take a retreat from the hectic grind of daily living and reflect for a moment on the passion, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We often are unaware that in our hurry to keep with the fast pace of life, we often forget that there is God in our lives. In the haste to do what we thought are significant for [...]
No necessity to oil price control
This is the gist of the message of Pres. Noynoy Aquino during a talk with newsmen on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Philippine Information agency regarding the escalation of prices of commodities as offshoot of uncontrolled oil price hike: he would impose price control on oil products if necessary. By logical inference, the public now speculates on the grounds that could compel PNoy to impose a ceiling on price of the most important commodity on land, where pricing all other goods [...]
Break
People in this fast-growing city and the various towns of the region had shown manifest their love for music, fun and entertainment. This love for music is best manifested in the proliferation of music machines commonly known as videoke. The gadget has earned popularity among folks living in both urban and rural areas. Where before, people would patronize songbooks to learn lyrics and chords of hit songs, people today are dependent on music machines that provide both accompaniment and lyrics. [...]
The threat of floods
A day or two of continuous rains experienced in the past couple of days and floods once again recurred in many areas of Eastern Visayas . Submerging portions of many roads under water, floodwaters as usual affected some people’s mobility, threatening agricultural infrastructures that, not many weeks ago, were badly affected by similar floods brought about then by incessant, heavy rains. The latest show of heavy downpour proved short-lived, but its impact was immediately visible. How much [...]
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