GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO praised USA President George Bush for government bailout of the beleaguered stock market.
Had the same crisis happened in the Philippines, would GMA take the same step?
Judging from our experience with the CAP and Pacific Plans, the answer is NO.
Now we can’t blame some people for mistrusting pre-need plans, banks and insurance companies […]

SUDDENLY, Boy Mejo admitted having reconciled with TESDA Secretary Boboy Syjuco, the good “father” he had been cursing on the air. Why had it taken him eight long months, since February 2008, to confess?
Probably, the prodigal “son” had been agonizing over how he could justify the reconciliation without looking “pera.”
Ironically, it was Boy’s good friend, […]

REGARDLESS of his good performance, Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco, director general of theTechnical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), does not expect to retain his post when the term of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ends in 2010. It would be more logical to expect him to run for a Senate seat, since his better half, Congresswoman […]

CENTRAL Philippine University (CPU) used to boast of “the central spirit,” no doubt because of the unusual unity of its alumni in its upkeep. It is an open secret that well-off Centralians here and abroad donate millions of pesos yearly, enabling the university to maintain high standard at least tuition cost to the students.
This school […]

PAVIA, Iloilo Mayor Arcadio Gorriceta sounded like a broken record the other day when he barked at the Syjucos anew on Aksyon Radyo because of a column item in this corner that credited Congresswoman Judy, not the mayor, for the DPWH program of work to upgrade with concrete one of Pavia’s many bad roads.
I am […]

DID Pavia, Iloilo Mayor Arcadio Gorriceta deliberately lie when he repeatedly accused the Syjuco couple of trying to “magic” asphalt into dakal-dakal or gravel and sand? Let’s see.
A faxed copy of a document – the September 9, 2008 letter of 2nd District Congresswoman Judy Syjuco to DPWH Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. – mirrors the initiative […]

TIME was when we believed what we saw in print and heard on radio. But now we can’t even believe what we see on digital TV.
These days – take it from Jun Lozada — even the Supreme Court could interpret a kidnapping incident as a tourism event.
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“Don’t blame Dinagyang,” cries Dinagyang exec Ben Jimena, “for […]

YESTERDAY, September 15, TESDA’s Ladderized Education Program (LEP) turned four years old. It was on that date in 2004 when the President signed Executive Order No. 358 “to institutionalize a ladderized interface between technical-vocational education and higher education.”
Has “ladderization” served its purpose?
Let us recall that under said EO, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority […]

AT the outset, it seems as if Pavia, Iloilo Mayor Arcadio “Cadio” Gorriceta “scored” over the Syjuco couple when he exposed an alleged ghost road project in his municipality. Indeed, who would not fume at the thought of P28-million “evaporating” into thin air instead of going into the concreting of a 3.9-kilometer “abortion” road covering […]

THE other day, Juan dela Cruz of Villa Arevalo, Iloilo City woke up to find a bad news in the mailbox – a billing statement from the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD). For zero cubic meter consumed, he would have to pay the P159.00 due for the month not later than Friday or be fined […]