An Unbelievable Senatorial Survey ARE we so naïve as to make sense of the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) senatorial survey showing reelectionist Senator Christopher “Bong” Go and ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo on top, sharing 42% of the “magic 12”? If you think so, why? I don’t think so because I
March 28, 2025
ON the radio program “Tribuna sang Banwa” — sponsored by the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers and Heirs (FLASH) on Aksyon Radyo — we tackle questions from seafarers with labor problems. For this column, is a seaman terminated prior to expiration of his contract entitled to full compensation. This is a queer
March 26, 2025
WHAT happens when the oil cartel announces price hikes of petroleum products? As sure as the sun rises tomorrow (assuming the hike proceeds as announced), motor vehicles will fall in line at the gas stations for “full thank”. We have gotten so used to cartelization among oil firms that we no longer
March 24, 2025
CERTAINLY, you have heard of the oil cartel that fixes uniform prices of various brands of oil products. But have you wondered whether there’s a cartel of political pollsters who come up with similar or near-similar “magic 12” frontliners in periodic surveys running up to May 12. 2025 senatorial race? “Amazing” is
March 21, 2025
IN our coffee talk at Hotel del Rio, Iawyer Edwin R. Catacutan shared to me his “incursion into Christian theology” as discussed in his decade-old book Creation, Fall, and Redemption. His book is one of the few books that can rightly be judged by its cover: a colorful telescope image of an outburst
March 19, 2025
IF you were one of us who viewed on TV the “quad committee” hearing at the House of Representatives on November 14, 2024, you will remember what former President Rodrigo Duterte exactly said: “I am asking the ICC to hurry up, and if possible, they can come here and start the investigation
March 17, 2025
WHO could have imagined former President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte nose-diving from top to bottom? As I was writing this, the former strongman had arrived at The Hague, Netherlands, taken into custody by the International Criminal Court (ICC) following his arrest in Manila on murder charges linked to his “war on drugs” in
March 14, 2025
IS it necessary to privatize the Iloilo International Airport? If we listen to Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Vince Dizon, it is because of the need to expand it to accommodate more flights and plane passengers. The ₱21.16-billion rehabilitation of Iloilo International Airport, however, has not yet been approved by the National
March 12, 2025
IF I were in government service, I would have retired ten years ago at age 65; not as a matter of choice, but of compulsory retirement. But at my present age of 75, retirement is not even on the horizon. Don’t I deserve to enjoy the rest of my life? I do,
March 10, 2025
KUDOS to a hitherto unknown CPA/lawyer Jeryll Harold Respicio for coming out with a not-so-good suspicion that the forthcoming May 12, 2025 election could be manipulated online through “backdoor programs” to override the automated counting machines He had allegedly “demonstrated” before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial office in Isabela how it
March 7, 2025
THIS corner agrees with Dr. Anthony Leachon, a known health reform advocate, who recently cautioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against any hasty move to approve a new vaccine against dengue because “it will not solve the gargantuan problem.” Lechon was reacting to Sen. Nancy Binay’s call for the approval of
March 5, 2025
NO doubt, published election surveys double as mind-conditioners to promote the top candidates for the May 12, 2025 senatorial race. For when the same names materialize in the actual election returns, expect an “I told you so” reaction from survey followers. Are we so “bobo” that we would swallow hook, line and sinker the
March 3, 2025