By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The proposed Bacolod City curfew from 8:00 o’clock in the evening to 4:00 o’clock in the morning is another slash in the neck of the proverbial goose that lays the golden eggs. The goose, the business sector, is already bleeding and is now on the verge of giving up but is
August 6, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy A radio listener commented on the planned imposition of Enhanced Community Quarantine with a statement that expresses the concern of many citizens who live on a daily wage. They are the so-called “isang kahig, isang tuka” sector of society. If they don’t work, they don’t eat! And their number is legion.
August 5, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Love Visayas Express Transport, Inc. is still applying for the franchise of its Panay routes and I have no information whether Barotac Viejo Mayor Niel Tupas has issued the certification that Rodney Santarin requested. But whether or not the mayor did is unimportant; it served its purpose in exposing this
August 4, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last week I mentioned the request of the Love Visayas Transport Express, Inc. for a certification from Barotac Viejo that it has a loading and unloading space in the town. The certification is one of the requirements of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board for this new bus company to
August 3, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Through the centuries of the Christian era the Church had followed the example of its Founder, Jesus Christ, in speaking the truth and defending the weak and the oppressed. The members, from the highest leader, the Pope, to the ordinary member of the Church, had suffered including death of the most
August 1, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I cited yesterday Rodney Santarin, branch manager of Love Visayas Transport Express, who wrote Barotac Viejo Mayor Niel Tupas (not Barotac Nuevo as indicated in the first part of this series published on July 30, 2020) a letter asking that the mayor certify that a parking space was “provided” by the
July 31, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The other day I took another glance at the Ceres Liner north terminal close to the fly-over in Barangay Bata in the Bacolod-Talisay highway. It was once a bustling place with buses arriving and leaving daily almost every fifteen minutes and even less. It carried thousands of passengers with hundreds more
July 30, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Every critical event in human history changes the lives of people. When Cain slew his brother Abel, he found two things – a tool and weapon. The stone became a weapon used for several millennia as it was used to build roads to open the world for people and houses
July 29, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Physicist Albert Einstein whose genius is still to be surpassed once said, “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” I recall a reminder when we were in college: the measure of a person is not in the size of his wallet but the
July 28, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Even before President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Anti-Terrorism Act last July 3, there were already strong opposition from several sectors, aside from the strong words from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. Most of the oppositions are from the legal circles, some of them retired justices. New cases were filed
July 27, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo was reported last July 20 saying that the Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines criticizing the Anti-Terrorism Act “appears to have violated the doctrine of separation of Church and State.” He accused the CBCP of “pressuring the Supreme Court
July 25, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy In the middle of the pandemic, many politicians are more concerned about their interests than the country’s welfare. People are afraid and have surrendered many of their rights to the government and thus are weak in a political sense. The unscrupulous politicians and vested interests are floating the idea of changing
July 24, 2020