TODAY is Philippine Independence Day. Long Live the Philippines!
After a prolonged wait of almost four years, the Commission on Appointments (CA) finally gave me a passing grade on June 4, to which I suspect that the Holy Spirit had come to bless me that memorable day. I was very thankful for the surprisingly lighthearted endorsements that [...]

HAPPY Independence Day, Philippines! Long live the nation and the President!
This early, a group of Filipinos belonging to the Left-wing organizations, like Bayan, whose cells operate in the United States, are already finalizing plans for holding rallies and protests against President Arroyo when she visits that country for talks with President Bush. They call it [...]

THE US GOVERNMENT acknowledged the “significant” drop in the number of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the country in its latest Advancing Freedom and Democracy Report 2008.
The report also gave a thumbs-up sign to the country’s human-rights record, although it remained skeptical on the issue of EJKs, saying that we as a nation have struggled with [...]

CIRCULATED mostly through cellular phones, the idea that text messages should be free of charge will certainly appeal to all mobile-phone owners, especially those addicted to texting.
To a country which is among the world’s top texters, it is an attractive idea, but I’m afraid that to allow free text messages to proliferate because it’s free [...]

I AM STARTING to believe Air Philippines does not know how to maintain its aircraft properly, to the inconvenience of its passengers. I have been taking Air Philippines on my weekend trips to Iloilo, and for the last half-dozen trips, I have been aghast by the fact that the front lavatories of the aircraft I [...]

THE LAST of the legendary Kennedy brothers is dying. The 76-year-old Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy was found to have a malignant brain tumor, sending a shock wave across the political terrain of America.
His peers in the US Senate paid tribute to Kennedy’s idealism and called him a “giant” of the Democratic Party and the last [...]

WHAT APPEARS unrebutted during the confrontation between the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) top honchos and Winston Garcia of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), with some contributions from former National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) chief Romy Neri, is that billions of pesos have been collected by Meralco as electric-meter deposits. Also, that the public [...]

BEFORE, it was a bold, “If you like it, you buy it!” Now it’s an entirely different tune, like they won’t give up the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) without a fight.
Nobody wants to give up the gravy or the goose that lays the golden egg. If they meant what they first said, I would be [...]

FIRST, the killer cyclone in Burma, then the powerful earthquake in China. What’s next? Mother Nature is unleashing her fury and man seems helpless against it. It seems, too, that God is using His awesome powers to punish man for his sins. Thousands have died and thousands more are still missing.
In the face of such [...]

NOW that the issue involving Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) has become the talk of the town, there is one aspect that I think should be brought out in the open so we can have a clear and total picture of Meralco’s operations. I refer to the collection of water-meter deposits which I understand is around [...]