By Alex P. Vidal “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”—Dan Rather THOSE who are expecting their relatives in the United States to visit the Philippines soon shouldn’t panic after the latest “do not travel” advisory released by the U.S.
April 27, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.” — Jerome Cady I DON’T agree with Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman of the National Task Force to End Communist Insurgency, when he red-tagged community pantry organizers. He sounded stupid. I also don’t fully agree with him
April 26, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Vaccines are safe, effective, and lifesaving.” — Alex Azar IT is so depressing to know that only 43,835 Filipinos have been vaccinated in the last seven days, according to reports. If this turtle-paced approach to fighting the pandemic by health authorities in the Philippines will go on, many Filipinos won’t
April 24, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt THE Elmhurst Community Fridge 2 in Queens, NYC has been providing us with free food supplies since last year during the start of pandemic-induced lockdown. Every now and then, I still visit the place
April 23, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “If any of you cry at my funeral, I’ll never speak to you again!” — Stan Laurel By the time this article comes out in the Philippines, Leonidas “Leo” Dumagat’s body may have been burned. The retired veteran broadcaster, who succumbed to lung cancer April 17, was scheduled for cremation
April 22, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.” —Richard Hanna ILOILO City Hall officials, especially the city councilors, implicated in the brand new pick-up trucks brouhaha have nothing to gain but will have everything to lose in terms of public opinion and delicadeza. Speaking of
April 20, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.” – Mahalia Jackson AMID the depressing situation in the Philippines where 11,101 additional COVID-19 cases were recorded on April 17, bringing the total number of infections to 926,052, let’s continue to pin our hopes
April 19, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” – Jerry Seinfeld I ALWAYS refer to the Daily Guardian as the thinking paper although it is always known as the community paper with the best business and economic reporting,
April 17, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.” —Proverbs 12-15 AFTER weeks of dilly-dallying, I have finally decided to take a Covid-19 vaccine and my schedule is on April 19 at the Citi Field in Flushing here in Queens, NYC. My decision to delay
April 16, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold H. Glasow THE Philippines’ failure to provide adequate assistance for the Filipinos during the pandemic is a manifestation of a poor quality in national leadership. More
April 15, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.”—Bertolt Brecht IS the Philippines going the opposite direction in as far as the fight against the pandemic is concerned? While more than 67 million doses of the vaccine have been administered in the United States so far as of this
March 31, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain’t no hypocrite.”—Bushwick Bill MANG Pepeng, 84, and his wife, Estelita, 85, finally received their stimulus checks worth $1,400 each on March 27. Contrary to what he passionately declared two weeks ago, Mang Pepeng
March 30, 2021