“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”—Edmund Burke WE support the plan of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to make a shorter list of party-list groups participating in the May 2025 elections. If possible, we must eliminate party-list groups that siphon millions of taxpayers’ money, but their representatives do
April 23, 2024
“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.”—Sarah Parish ILOILO City Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas has made a big political risk when he asked Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio to resign as Department of Education (DepEd)
April 22, 2024
“Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.”—Karen Salmansohn IF it was true that Police Colonel Ronaldo Palomo was sacked as Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) director and replaced as officer-in-charge (OIC) by Police Colonel Bayani Razalan for his failure
April 20, 2024
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”— Jacques Yves Cousteau IT’S so sad that the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) had to pass a resolution recommending to place Iloilo City under a state of calamity due to
April 19, 2024
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention
April 18, 2024
“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.”—Mike Ditka FILIPINOS aren’t the poorest in the world. Being poor is only in the mind—an abnormal state of mind. Because our thinking has been preprogrammed and preconditioned by politicians with vested self
April 17, 2024
“My cell phone is my best friend. It’s my lifeline to the outside world.”—Carrie Underwood ASKING members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) not to use cellphones so they can’t watch videos and use Facebook while on duty is like burning the house for a rat. In this age where the
April 16, 2024
“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.”— Jodi Rell FILIPINO parents have the moral obligation to prioritize the safety of their kids now that no less than the United Nations (UN) has expressed alarm massive heatwaves across East Asia and the Pacific could place millions
April 13, 2024
“Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.”— Dennis Ross SINCE becoming president of the Philippines in 2022, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has made a total of four visits in the United States. And his US trips are making China restless and suspicious, according to some geopolitical observers privy to
April 12, 2024
“Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.”— Ralph Nader IN any electoral battle, the concurrently dominant Defensor political clan in Iloilo can always afford to tandem with lesser-knowns, or with a rival clan, the Tupases in the fifth district that, for awhile, became a force to reckon with
April 11, 2024
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”— Edmund Burke WHOEVER conceptualized the idea of fielding Iloilo second district Rep. Michael “Mike” Gorriceta for vice governor against the handpicked candidate of the Garin clan in the next
April 10, 2024
