“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.” —Terry Pratchett FILIPINOS riding on the New York City subway have been told to stay awake and not to sleep during the trip or risk being set on fire like what happened to a
January 7, 2025
“I’ve seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.” —Jan Schakowsky SINCE December 2024, United States communities with suspected large number of illegal immigrants have been buzzing with worries and fears there would be “mass deportations” to begin on President-elect
January 6, 2025
“I’ve never been to jail. I’ve never been arrested. I’ve never been locked up.” —Samuel L. Jackson LAWYERS Kristina Conti and Neri Colmenares owe the Filipino people—or at least those who regularly followed the political bickering in the Philippines—an explanation if not apology why 2024 is gone and former President Rodrigo Duterte
January 4, 2025
“In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better… Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they’re excited about.” — Geoffrey Hinton WHEN the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Western Visayas announced the “full capacity” opening of the scandal-ridden P1-billion four-lane Ungka flyover on December 23, there was no
December 30, 2024
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” —Winston Churchill WE are glad no earthshaking political wrangling in the city and province of Iloilo took place these past months and weeks; and it appears year 2024 will bid farewell in a peaceful atmosphere for local politics. With barely five months
December 28, 2024
“I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back.” —Donal Trump on his plan to deport illegal aliens. MARIANO believes even if he will be the winningest chess player among
December 25, 2024
“It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.” — Moliere WHAT should have been a historic celebration of the “Simbang Gabi,” a nine-day series of Masses celebrated by Filipino Catholics leading up to Christmas Day, among Filipino Catholics in New York, became a
December 24, 2024
“Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.” — Steven Pinker AT around 10:04 o’clock in the morning December 21, Marlon “Boy” Doronila walked toward the terrace of his four-story apartment in Queens to voluntarily bring the white
December 23, 2024
“I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.” — Benjamin Netanyahu CANDIDATES in next year’s Philippine midterm elections—local and national—shouldn’t allow themselves to be distracted by the “results” of surveys commissioned by legitimate or shady outfits, especially survey firms that spring to life
November 1, 2024
“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” —Alan Cohen ONE of the most “private” public officials when it comes to health issues and the kind of medical treatment he is undergoing, is Iloilo City Mayor Geronimo
October 31, 2024
“Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!” —Matthew Arnold ILOILO—the city and province—used to grab headlines in the national broadsheets and broadcast networks during the elections owing to quality of aspirants and intense rivalries among candidates for provincial governor, city mayor, congressman. Not anymore. If not
October 30, 2024
