‘Quidnunc’s Neighbor’ Archives
God’s will in Corona impeachment trial
Last Monday’s (May 14, 2012) continuation of the defense panel’s presentation of evidence in the impeachment of chief justice Renato Corona could generally be said as having turned the table against the impeached third highest official of the Republic of the Philippines, and one of the things God the Almighty does when some of His human creations are not doing the right things. Even some ordinary and uneducated people believed so. That’s how their stake in the impeachment shows. And [...]
The Rape of ‘Filipinas’
Whatever the Philippine Archipelago had been named before, during and after its colonization by Spain, she has always been very attractive to foreigners, aliens who just set foot on her shores. Time and history have been witnessing how foreigners have been taking away slowly, gradually, and then in larger quantities or volumes, our natural resources, as well as women. Born to her lands and the waters surrounding them were what historians described so many, many years later as aborigines of [...]
Cuevas’ suspicion means fallacies bared
Defense lead counsel Serafin Cuevas suspects something happened during the past few weeks when the impeachment court went on recess. His suspicion was prompted by how the impeachment trial proceedings turned out until the last minute of the defense’s attempts last May 7 (Monday) afternoon. It seemed that last Monday, the first day of the resumption of the impeachment against chief justice Renato C. Corona after a long recess, even Cuevas himself, and the defense team were flagellated [...]
No Waray interested to run for senator, why?
Until this writing, I haven’t heard yet of any Waray name making it to lists of probable candidates for senator for the May13, 2013 elections. Why is this so? Apart from the name of Ted Failon (Larry Etong of the defunct Romualdez-owned DyMM amplitude modulation radio station in Tacloban), we had heard only very few names for the 2010 senatorial elections, and one of them was incumbent Leyte Governor Icot Petilla, but none so far made it to the final slates. There could be other [...]
Two salaries in June alone – first under 3rd tranche, second under 4th tranche?
No doubt, most of the 1.6 million government employees in the Philippine bureaucracy are happy and satisfied that President Noynoy Aquino announced on April 29 (Sunday) that their raise in pay, consisting of the fourth and last tranche or installment of the third round of Salary Standardization Law (SSL 3), or Republic Act No. 6758 (long title: An Act prescribing a revised compensation and position classification in the government and for other purposes; short title: Compensation and [...]
‘Tacloban is not safe!’
This was how an exasperated pretty woman described Region VIII’s highly urbanized prime city to show her disgust at a questionable behavior of a police officer who obviously responded with dubious reluctance to her plea that the latter chase the man who just stealthily took away P25,000 from her bag during the Holy Week inside a passenger jeep in the vicinity of Naga-Naga, Tacloban. “Talaga gud di matapuran an iba nga kapulisan!” She did not say all the policemen could not be trusted, [...]
Farewell to an ever-helpful Basaynon
My family and I , as well as my brothers Douglas and Gen-Gen wish to express our condolence and sympathy to the bereaved family of Miguelito Bajas who died in the state of Our Lord on April 9, the very day when the entire Filipino nation was commemorating the Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valour – a national holiday fixed by the Philippine Government to mark the Fall of Bataan during World War II , when 67,000 Filipino soldiers, including 11,796 American counterparts and 1,000 Chinese-Filipinos [...]
‘Political shopping’, too early, says Sen. Escudero
Senator Chiz Escudero has said discussion about politics should be put on the back burner to give way to more pressing issues like the power crisis, the unabated gas price increases and the impending tuition hikes. Escudero made the statement in light of the reported coalition forged between Vice President Jejomar Binay’s Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) and former President Joseph Estrada’s Partido ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) under the United Nationalist Alliance [...]
444 earthquakes already struck Philippines since January 2012!
Did you know that Eastern Visayas (Region VIII- the Waray Region) experienced a total of 442 earthquakes between January 1and April 11 in this current year (2012)? I have just made a simple counting of the earthquakes that struck the Philippine archipelago as monitored and recorded in the “Seismological Observation” posted in the internet by the PHIVOLCS (Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology). It was actually a desultory effort at a time when I couldn’t anymore [...]
Paging Gov. Tan, Rep. Tan, DPWH! – the cry of Brgy. Roxas, Basey
A week after the Holy Week, the world is back to its usual state. Other thoughts are up again, as if there was no Passion of Jesus Christ commemorated. There will now be less than 361 days left again as a chance for every Christian believer to seek and follow the teachings and commandments of The Redeemer, The Saviour, and The Messiah. That is mankind’s sad fate, as before. * * * Politics was once again in the face of barrio Samrak (renamed Roxas) in Basey, Samar. A few days to the [...]
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