IN a previous column, I left unanswered the question why Pres. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos appeared afraid to turn over his predecessor, Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte to the International Court of Justice (ICC) to face trial for “crimes against humanity”. Here, let us disprove his statement that the ICC is a “threat to our
April 29, 2024
WAS President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. serious when he declared his objection to the “jurisdiction” of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his predecessor, Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte? “A threat to our sovereignty” was how he opposed the ICC investigators’ intention to enter the country and arrest former President Rodrigo Duterte et al.,
April 26, 2024
WHAT could have caused the indefinite postponement of the mass oath-taking of Western Visayas politicians before the ruling Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP)? The reason, according to Iloilo Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr., was because the party honchos, including presidential son and Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos, could not make
April 24, 2024
MY son, a nurse in Chicago, called to ask how much is today’s conversion rate of the US dollar to Philippine peso. I answered “₱57” while thinking to myself it’s not really good news; it’s tantamount to eroding the buying power of the peso. Anyway, I did some research on Google, which
April 22, 2024
HEART diseases are among the biggest claimants of life anywhere in the world. The hardest hit are the rich who can splurge on the most expensive steaks and other fatty delicacies. Well, I used to be a steak lover – even if I am not rich. Now I don’t care if I
April 19, 2024
DID Iloilo City Rep. Julienne “Jamjam” Baronda really mean what she told Mayor Jerry Treñas? That she would not run for re-election in 2025 in order to give way to his daughter Raisa Treñas-Chu? If she were truthful, I guess she would either quit politics or run against the mayor. Another possibility is that the
April 17, 2024
US President Joe Biden, in his just-concluded trilateral summit with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House, reiterated the word “ironclad” to describe his country’s pledge to defend the Philippines from any attack amid repeated “bullying” by the China Coast Guard (CCG) at the West
April 15, 2024
THE sudden trip of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Washington DC the other day could only be viewed as an urgent step to boost our country’s defense against China’s bullying. The reason given — to take part in the first-ever trilateral summit with United States President Joe Biden, and Japan Prime Minister
April 12, 2024
IMAGINE what could have crossed the mind of China’s President Xi Jinping on the day (Sunday, April 7) when four ships were cruising in a single line along the West Philippine Sea. The ships represented the navies of the United States, Australia, Japan and the Philippines participating in the first in a
April 10, 2024
BY chance, I saw Facebook pictures of Raisa Treñas-Chu showing her amid the ruins of Fort San Pedro. The caption said that the only daughter of Mayor Treñas and restaurateur Rosalie Sarabia-Treñas was reminiscing about her childhood days when her parents would take her there. On another day, I read a brief news
April 8, 2024
THIS writer once wrote of his failed search for the true religion, stressing that “I discovered God outside of religion.” Let this be a sequel to that article. The truth is that one religion’s goodness is another’s sin – as in worship or veneration of graven images. If I cited unassailable anti-religion
April 5, 2024
WE are still in the first week following the Holy Week. Fresh in our mind is how we shied away from “sins” last week when we followed the admonition of our priests and pastors to observe church-directed customs and traditions. We uttered no cuss, cursed nobody and made peace even with quarrelsome neighbors.
April 3, 2024