FOR two days, I stayed in bed, feeling too dizzy to write. In my mind, there was nothing to blame but Typhoon Inday and the heavy rains that leaked through the rusty roof of my apartment. Anyway, it was nothing compared with the havoc wrought in the worst-hit places. The National Disaster
July 13, 2026
MOST residents of the 1st District of Iloilo welcome Rep. Janette Garin’s bill, House Bill 7647, which would allow MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) to compete with the Iloilo 1 Electric Cooperative (ILECO 1). But there’s a better alternative. That is how a regional consumer organization, Bantay ng Bayan-101 (BNB-101),
July 8, 2026
ENRIQUE K. RAZON JR., 66, is now the richest man in the Philippines with a net worth of USD 16.5 billion, according to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List. Does that make him the first peso trillionaire? No doubt. With the exchange rate of one U.S. dollar now exceeding PHP 61, rounded off,
July 6, 2026
By Herbert Vego WE have waited too long for it. And so we hope that, as scheduled, the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte will finally kick off at the Senate/Impeachment Court on Monday, July 6, 2026. Will the impeached Inday Sara show up at the Senate to answer the four articles of impeachment
July 3, 2026
A consumer organization known as Bantay ng Bayan-101 (BNB-101) used to express conformity with the franchise bill of Rep. Janette Garin (House Bill 7647), which would allow MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) to compete with the Iloilo 1 Electric Cooperative (ILECO 1) as the second distribution utility (DU) in her
July 1, 2026
WE all have heard of the law of supply and demand as an economic principle implying that the price of a product or service is determined by its availability and the public’s desire for it. Where there is a sudden shortage, demand rises along with its price. That is where we are
June 29, 2026
FORMER Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano was obviously lying when he denounced the 13 members of the new Senate majority for being lapdogs of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. As such, they would manipulate the forthcoming impeachment trial to convict Vice President Sara Duterte for culpable violation of the Constitution, bribery, graft and
June 26, 2026
THE next time Jona or Judith comes to visit, some housewives will not be in the mood to part with their husbands’ hard-earned money. Levity aside, “due date” or “due na” scares Mama whenever the family budget could not cope with the escalating use of electricity and its corresponding price hike. The amount
June 24, 2026
IT must have stunned Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go to hear it from his presumed political ally, Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo “Polong” Duterte. As reported in the papers, Polong had spread the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had already issued a warrant of arrest against him. Anyway, Go
June 22, 2026
“AAYAW-AYAW nga ako ngunit ‘yan ay di totoo,” says a line from a Tagalog song where the lady singer “resists” the suitor she loves; pakipot for short. The song reminds us of how the then mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte, initially laughed off “public clamor” for him to run for president
June 19, 2026
TWO of the songs that I love to listen to – and occasionally sing during karaoke gigs — are “Words Don’t Come Easy” and “Yesterday When I Was Young” which, I believe, are familiar to my fellow “oldies”. “Words, don’t come easy to me,” the first song begins. That’s now how I
June 17, 2026
By Herbert Vego ONE obvious reason why our peso has declined in value against the US dollar is because we import more goods than we export. To reverse this downward trend, we need to boost exportation of our native products. It is by boosting exports that we generate higher foreign currency inflows (like US dollars)
June 15, 2026