By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Two of our country’s agricultural products are being threatened with a possibility that those engaged in this venture will turn to other profitable endeavors. The rice and sugar industry, two of our basic commodities are facing unlimited importation of cheaper rice and sugar. The country’s economic advisers of the administration of
December 17, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy It is the nature of bees to sting and for fish to swim. For humans, it is each according to its style. We can curse the bees for stinging and complain that the fish are fleeing when we approach. And so, to complain against another person’s style is an exercise in
December 16, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy For Filipinos, the Christmas tree is as old as the American rule and influence in this country. Wherever one goes during this season, no matter how humble the abode is, there is a Christmas tree, many of them made from a nearby shrub, dotted with cotton and adorned with anything that
December 14, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The month of December 1898 was busy for the euphoric Negros revolutionary leaders. A month earlier they won the revolution with a few casualties and due to delayed communications from Iloilo about reinforcements, the Spanish government surrendered. Believing in their own strength, the revolutionary leaders decided to detach their province from
December 13, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The Philippines is an Asian country that is among the few where the English language is spoken and understood by almost everybody. However, that our students would land at the tail end of the rest of the world in an English examination is not surprising. The decline I believe began when
December 12, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Last week I cited the statement of Senator Cynthia Villar blaming SRA for the present state of the Philippine sugar industry. The fault is not only of the present SRA leadership but also of previous administrations. The deterioration of the industry from one of the most robust of all agricultural sectors
December 11, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The other day the majority stockholders of the Vallacar Transit Corporation held its Annual Stockholders’ meeting at a local hotel. The majority, comprising over 61% of the shares of the company thus constituted a quorum. The statement to the press from the VTI board of directors said that Roy Yanson chaired
December 10, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy At the time of this writing, information said that the Yanson Family will be holding the Vallacar Transit Incorporated annual stockholder’s meeting. Deadline prevents me from writing what happened during the meeting, but by now something significant shall have been decided and released to the public. The result may or may
December 9, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy The November 28 report of LifeSiteNews said that a priest denied Holy Communion to a woman judge who had contracted “marriage” to another woman. In effect, she is a lesbian and had proclaimed to be one. The news said that Fr. Scott Nolan of the Diocese of Grand Rapids in Michigan
December 7, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy This is the title of a book that I had the pleasure of reviewing on invitation of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno of the Augustinian Recollects last November 28. The book was launched at the Provincialate of the Order in Quezon City to commemorate the 21st year of the foundation
December 6, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy I was out of Bacolod last week when a friend informed me of an article being distributed in Bacolod. He asked me to comment on it because I had carried the issue for a long while. The article is a one-page photocopy of an article written by Segundo Éclair Romero of
December 5, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Only Senator Cynthia Villar had the courage to speak up and pin the blame on the present unhappy state of the Philippine sugar industry on where it rightly belongs – the Sugar Regulatory Administration. All other political and economic leaders had gone into rhetoric, rationalization and promises but skipped the main
December 4, 2019