IT boggles one’s imagination that the break-up of movie stars Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla has gone viral in the social media. They have been sweethearts for 11 years. Why so much fuss when they have not married each other for so long? Incidentally, I had been an entertainment journalist in Metro
December 6, 2023
YOU must have seen those TV ads lauding online or digital banking as the safest way to grow money because it allows us to conduct financial transactions via the Internet. We don’t have to enter the bank for such services as deposits, transfers, and bill payments. The bad news, however, is that
December 4, 2023
IN choosing Iloilo City and suburbs as prime targets for business expansion, billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has proven himself right. As everybody now knows, he is the investor behind the successful MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the city’s power-distribution utility. The last time Razon came here to grace the inauguration
December 2, 2023
A SECTARIAN radio/TV network defends block voting for church-chosen candidates by quoting the Bible, such as the first three verses of Romans 13: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists
November 29, 2023
IN a previous column, I parodied a Christmas carol to better watch out because, instead of Santa, “ICC is coming to town.” I predicted that the long-pending House Resolution No. 1393 filed by Rep. France Castro (ACT Teachers) and others within the so-called Makabayan bloc to probe violations by former President Rodrigo
November 25, 2023
WE better watch out; we better not cry; ICC is coming to town. It’s hard to predict when, but my viewfinder shows representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC) coming to Manila to probe extra-judicial killings allegedly committed by former President Rodrigo Duterte and his cohort. This likelihood is shaping up with
November 21, 2023
GONE are the days when residents of Bacolod and several other cities and towns of Negros Occidental would worry about complete loss of electricity. A savior is coming in the form of a joint venture between Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) and Primelectric Holdings (sister company of MORE Power). As reported in this paper,
November 18, 2023
TO “give me five” is to hit someone’s open hand with your own in greeting or celebration. Let us give it to someone whose name says so. After almost seven years of life in jail for an uncommitted crime, former Senator Leila de Lima, 64, is out on bail. And because her
November 15, 2023
WE wait with bated breath for the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on a petition to ban Smartmatic Philippines Inc. as automation service provider in the forthcoming May 2025 midterm polls. That’s easier said than done even if one of the petitioners is former commissioner Augusto Lagman, who believes that
November 13, 2023
HAVING finished a two-year course in Aircraft Maintenance, he might have “flown higher.” Before he could claim his college diploma, however, the Gumayan School of Aeronautics in Iloilo City suddenly shut down without leaving a forwarding address. “I got frustrated,” Jonathan Cabrera, 46, told this writer, “because I could not find any
November 10, 2023
HAS somebody ever commended you for having a big heart? Congratulations. It means you are generous and eager to help people. But if, like me, you have a literally big heart, it’s a disease known in medical parlance as cardiomegaly – when the heart grows bigger than its normal size. The heart
November 8, 2023