Opinion: E-mails from US
I received 3 emails from friends in the US in connection of what’s happening in the Philippines now. Rely Caparas who is known among my readers for being a regular commentator on this column is a...
View ArticleOpinion: Peque Gallaga’s Reaction
I was not able to share film director Peque Gallaga’s comments on typhoon Yolanda with my readers last time due to column limitation. It’s from the email sent by Monet Moreno from USA. Perhaps not...
View ArticleOpinion: Disappointed
In my last week’s column film Director Peque Gallaga expressed his disappointment on the way how our government officials acted on Typhoon Yolanda.He is not alone, majority of Filipinos are also...
View ArticleOpinion: Welcome to Advent!
Welcome to Advent! This is our wakeup call. Time to shake off sleep, lethargy and old ways and habits. It is meant to be rude awakening, like a trumpet blast that signals hope, glory and worldwide...
View ArticleOpinion: La Peral
Last December 1 we were invited by our Prima Pining Palma vda. de Ticar to attend the blessing of the restaurant of her children John Edgar B. Javelosa and his wife Reina Ticar Javelosa.The restaurant...
View ArticleOpinion: A Rejoinder From Monet Moreno
In my last column about emails from the US, Monet Moreno is one of the emailers. He sent the sentiment of Filipino film director Peque Gallaga about his disappointment on Pnoy’s handling of the crises...
View ArticleOpinion: A Court Fixer Comes Back in the News
A Saturday issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer (Dec. 14, 2013) has on its front page the news about Arlene Angeles Lerma.It was all over the news last time when Arlene Lerma and some alleged court...
View ArticleOpinion: Dark Christmas
Last Christmas was a dark Christmas for me and members of my family. Vresco was not able to do the projected target of returning the power in our area destroyed by typhoon Yolanda or Haiyan.The sad...
View ArticleOpinion: The Turbanos-Joven Wedding
Last January 3, I was in Bacolod as a sponsor in a Turbanos-Joven wedding.Atty. Jerry Basiao sent me a text that our friend from New York, Ed Turbanos is in town and he wanted me to be a sponsor in the...
View ArticleOpinion: A Balikbayan’s Complaint on SM in Cadiz
Liberose Palma was born in Barangay Mabini, Cadiz City, but when she was a little girl her grandparents brought her to Toronto, Canada where she grew up.These past years she used to visit her family in...
View ArticleOpinion: Many Thieves In Cadiz
Now that Dinagsa Festival will be held soon in Cadiz City let it be a forewarning to those who would visit Cadiz to be careful with what they leave on their cars or of their cars and motorcycles.Late...
View ArticleOpinion: Rev. Dr. Eduardo R. Turbanos Pledges Scholarship Support To Cedar...
Cedar College is blessed when Rev. Dr. Eduardo R. Turbanos pledges support for scholarship of deserving students.Rev.Turbanos who is a Fil-Am living in Queens, New York is a retired Envoy of Salvation...
View ArticleOpinion: Dr. Vicente F. Gustilo Alumni Homecoming
Last January 24, Neil Defensor who is the faculty Vice Pres. for External Affair of Cedar College invited me and my wife to have lunch at Dr. Vicente F. Gustilo High School.It was his father Nilo...
View ArticleOpinion: Unsafe Cadiz
For those who want to visit Cadiz, the place is not safe as you think.In my past column I mentioned about many thieves in Cadiz and this does not change at all. What is worse is that there are ready...
View ArticleOpinion: Former Cadiz City Engineer Airs His Gripes
Defeated candidate for Mayor of Cadiz Maui Garganera sought me last week, to ask a space on this column concerning the gripe of former Cadiz City Engr. Leonilo Hulleza.Nilo Hulleza had a brickbat with...
View ArticleOpinion: What’s The Score Of Coal Fired Power Plant In Cadiz?
Majority of Cadiznons do not know if what is the real score of the proposed coal fired power plant the proponents are proposing for Cadiz.Last Thursday anti-coal group under the leadership of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Many Will Miss Cadiz Vresco Manager
Many in Cadiz will miss Engr. Jeffrey Poblador, the new Manager of Vresco in Cadiz. He was recalled back to main office in Manapla and given the new job as Chief of the Audit.Engr. Poblador became the...
View ArticleOpinion: Old
I am getting older. Soon I will die. That’s the destiny of all men anyway.My friends who were younger than me had already perished from this earth many years ago.Some of my contemporaries who are as...
View ArticleOpinion: Bullying Cudia
It’s more than one week now that Philippine Military Academy cadet Aldrin Jeff Cudia unceremoniously left the campus. He was not able to graduate despite that he was expected to graduate at the top of...
View ArticleOpinion: Foggy Issues on Cadiz Coal Fired Power Plant
The other Saturday the Anti-coal had a meeting at Social Action Center in Bacolod. It was chaired by Fr. Ernie Lareda.The important topic taken was the proposed coal fired power plant in Cadiz of which...
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