By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IT IS TRULY said that no power on earth can stop the fury of nature. On July 8, just as we started our research in the National Archives of America in Washington, D. C., the heavens opened with “a month’s worth of rain” that “deluged the immediate D. C. area, resulting
July 12, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE first place I went to for the research project on World War II in Negros and other wars prior was the New York Public Library, a huge structure occupying a whole block at the heart of the city. As can be expected, computers dominate the research facility and large numbers of
July 11, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy CELLPHONES and the internet have made telephones obsolete although there are still homes, government and business and commercial institutions that have this gadget. By and large, however, the cellphones have taken over as the main means of communication among people. Many feel incomplete (some claim naked) without them. Cellphone cards in
July 10, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy I BELIEVE that all our city officials have been abroad many times, here and elsewhere so that what I am writing is not unknown to them, unless they observe other things than acquiring the knowledge they can bring home to benefit the city. In that case, they are as uninformed as
July 9, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy ONE of the major problems of Bacolod City and perhaps many other cities in the country is garbage collection, handling, and disposal. Looking back, there had been many campaigns, including threats of sanctions and punishments, but so far they have all failed. The sight of garbage littering Bacolod each day, mounds
July 8, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy IT WAS a “passing glance” I had of an interviewee contending that everything should be free, including immigration. That would be nice populist campaign pitch that will surely cater to the many poor but can be a horrifying thought to the wealthy and those who work for their betterment in life.
July 6, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THERE was a time when the only history we learned is that of American history. It took some years after the Philippines became truly independent on July 4, 1946 that our legislators introduced the study of our past and literature but still loaded in favor of American and English authors. The
July 5, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy Filipinos celebrate their country’s Independence Day on June 12 but as I wrote before that commemoration has many clouds of doubt to be considered the day we truly became free. If we read other documents about that day, we will find that among them is the statement of Emilio Aguinaldo that
July 4, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy SOMEHOW, somewhere in the labyrinth of the Philippine government are forces that simply don’t like the sugar industry. As I intuited last week, reports of successive slashing of the industry’s budget to cushion the negative impact of the international trade liberalization movements will deny the industry the assistance it needs. It
July 3, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-ono We cannot compare the roads of Bacolod with those of New York but with New Jersey whose roads are as wide as Bacolod’s, mainly, four lanes. Parking is allowed in the two outer lanes in most places as in Bacolod but the flow of vehicles is smooth. Again, the reason is
July 2, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy THE positive reactions to the two previous columns on my observations on the traffic flow in New York and New Jersey were quick. So I continued observing the vehicles and pedestrians not only to find out how this melting pot of races and mixture of cultures interact but also to learn
July 1, 2019
By: Modesto P. Sa-onoy SEVERAL times in the recent past, I had been receiving requests to join petitions to stop well-known businesses and institutions from publicizing the satanic and insults against God. Imagine an international online business as Amazon selling satanic gadgets and even toilet bowls with the image of Christ on its cover. Or
June 29, 2019