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
I vividly remember that day in 2024 when, during a coffee chat with us at Hotel del Rio, President/CEO Roel Z. Castro of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) broached the idea of publishing a coffee-table book to chronicle its first five years of operation as Iloilo City’s distribution utility. I
June 12, 2026
AS I was writing this yesterday, 35 people had been reported dead and hundreds injured due to a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao on Monday morning. By now, worse statistics on fallen lives and properties would have been reported worldwide. This latest big quake is nothing new. I recall a similar magnitude-7.8
June 10, 2026
WHILE we may find the word strange, “stagflation” is in the dictionary, defined as “persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country’s economy.” Simply put, it is a condition where the poor no longer make enough money to cope with the rising prices of basic needs. In
June 8, 2026
THE lead of a newspaper story yesterday said, “An OCTA Research survey conducted from April 20 to 24, 2026 found that 74 percent of adult Filipinos support proceeding with the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, up from 69 percent in March.” I would like to believe it because that legal
June 4, 2026
THIS month of June has universal popularity as “the wedding month.” To a certain extent, to be a June bride has become an obsession among Filipino women. That includes the widowed actress Boots Anson Roa, who was 69 when she remarried widower Francisco “King” Rodrigo Jr. on June 14, 2014. As
June 1, 2026
YOU better watch out; El Niño is coming to town. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) estimates a 92 percent probability of a potential “Super El Niño” hitting the Philippines. “Super El Niño” refers to the phenomenon that brings a high risk of prolonged droughts, agricultural disruptions, and extreme
May 30, 2026