By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Some people are suggesting that the Catholic Church stop saying Masses to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. The rationale of this proposal is that the Mass, especially on Sundays and Saturdays are packed with the faithful who encounter others, receive communion, touch sacred images and pews and dip their fingers
March 14, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last week’s report in a national daily cited a senior military official downplaying Lacson’s claim, saying it is more likely that only 300 People’s Liberation Army and Chinese intelligence operatives are in the country. This is ten percent of what Lacson estimated. Military intelligence has not come out with any statement
March 13, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Philippine sugar industry has been under stress since 1987 when the government of President Corazon Aquino included the sugar lands under the coverage of the agrarian reform program. Lands were cut down into small sizes and practically forced the decline in production. Then came the ethanol program that was intended
March 12, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy I watched on television deserted streets of once busy streets of northern Italy. This was the same scene last month in Shanghai and several other cities in China. Northern Italy and several provinces in China had been locked down and citizens come out to buy food and necessities in rotation. Such
March 11, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy It is now almost certain the Bacolod City Water District will enter a joint venture with Prime Water. This has been anticipated from the start because of the clear actuations of the decision makers of Baciwa to get into this union that is fraught with uncertainties that only the negotiators can
March 10, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy There is foresight in the convention of the summit on the water resources of the province. Indeed, the study of the potable water situation has been neglected I think because people see a lot of water draining out into the sea. Last Friday, Bacolod, and I think other areas of the
March 9, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy There was a time when the forces of darkness hide and followers of satan move in the shadows. For several years now there had been reports of the satanic coming out into the public square to proclaim their opposition to God and the godly. I mentioned some of these satanic practices
March 7, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy Senator Panfilo Lacson revealed the other day chilling information that imperils the security of the Philippines. The senator, chairman of the committee on national defense and security, said that he received information from a “fairly reliable source” that “2,000 to 3,000 PLA personnel are now in the country on immersion missions
March 6, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Department of the Interior and Local Governments has been taking the pace set by President Rodrigo Duterte on public behavior. Two things had been initiated – proper and effective collection of garbage and the removal of road and pedestrian obstructions. But local governments had been taking a turtle pace approach
March 5, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy One wonders why despite the reported pledge of loyalty of rural folks to the Philippine Army and several town and barangay resolutions against the NPA, the army still augmented its forces in Negros Island. Last week the 33rd Reconnaissance Company of the 3rd Infantry Division based in Panay arrived in Bacolod
March 4, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy In the water summit convened by the Occidental Negros provincial government I commented yesterday, 3rd district congressman, Rep. Francisco Benitez said that the “supply of water is not infinite” and that “it is increasingly threatened by unregulated economic activity.” The fact is that water on this planet is always there. It
March 3, 2020
By Modesto P. Sa-onoy The irony of the water situation in Occidental Negros is that we have plenty of it but not enough going to where it is most needed – the households, commercial and industrial buildings, and offices. Some are fortunate they have dug wells or are connected along the main pipeline that they
March 2, 2020