By Herbert Vego “Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountainside The summer’s gone and all the roses falling It’s you, it’s you must go and I must bide.” As to why the late Danny Fajardo would often sing “Danny Boy” to us his barkada whenever we were
September 9, 2020
By Atty. Rolex T. Suplico The case of People of the Philippines versus Gerrjan Manago Y Acut (G. R. 212340, Aug. 17, 2016), penned by Justice Perlas-Bernable for the Supreme Court’s First Division, gives us insights on checkpoints and searches of moving vehicles, a familiar occurrence nowadays. This case happened in Cebu, but it
September 7, 2020
By Herbert Vego OUR colleague Luis Buenaflor played manghuhula when he posted on Facebook the date when the Supreme Court (SC) would release its decision on the constitutionality of the law (RA 11212) awarding the new 25-year franchise to MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power). When nga ba, Louie? Oh, oh, I would rather not put Louie
September 7, 2020
By Herbert Vego “AANHIN pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo?” It’s a Tagalog adage literally asking, “What’s the grass for if the horse is dead?” That reminds us of President Rodrigo Duterte asking patients to patiently wait for the availability of the first vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We have read
September 4, 2020
By Herbert Vego ITS organizers might have thought of mobilizing massive public support similar to the bloodless “People Power” or EDSA Revolution of 1986 despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But it was not meant to be. With only around 300 people who assembled at the Clark Freeport on August 22, their call for a “revolutionary
September 2, 2020
By Herbert Vego WOULD its latest legal defeat stop Panay Electric Co. (PECO) from further pestering More Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power)? I have in mind the decision of the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissing PECO’s case against four persons who had allegedly conspired with a Facebook group known as “No to PECO Franchise
August 31, 2020
WHAT is the latest medical bulletin about President Rodrigo Duterte? There is none but he is… “Mas malakas pa sa kalabaw,” in the words of Senator Bong Go. Alas, who would believe that fawning statement which his idol would not agree with? Remember, Duterte is a self-confessed victim of unique diseases, namely
August 28, 2020
By Herbert Vego YESTERDAY, August 25, Iloilo City uniquely celebrated its 83rd anniversary as “charter city”. As I was writing this yesterday, masked men and women were trekking to City Hall to witness the “Pasidungog” — an award ceremony to honor Ilonggo frontliners who risk their lives in the fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mayor Jerry
August 26, 2020
By Herbert Vego COULD a married couple also double as partners in crime? Yes, as in the case of spouses Lito and Nory (surname withheld) who were caught on Thursday night in the act of tapping electricity from a transformer to their house at barangay So-oc, Arevalo, Iloilo City. The couple had been under
August 24, 2020
By Herbert Vego WHERE were you on August 21, 1983? Even if you were not born yet on that date, you are no longer young today. Indeed, 37 long years have passed since former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was gunned down at the Manila International Airport (renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
August 21, 2020
By Herbert Vego HOW do you react whenever you hear somebody mutter, “Earthquake,” and feel the tremor yourself? When a strong one rocked a number of Bicol and Visayas provinces yesterday, did you panic or behave in accordance with the earthquake drills you had participated in? Whenever you hear the news that a typhoon
August 19, 2020
By Herbert Vego IT has been five months since March 17 when the government imposed various forms of community quarantines or lockdowns nationwide. We get dizzy familiarizing ourselves with abbreviations like GCQ, ECQ, MECQ, and MGCQ. Have we “flattened the curve”? As of yesterday, the Philippines had hit a total number of 157,918 recorded
August 17, 2020