WHEN Department of Justice (DOJ) Sec. Raul M. Gonzalez, Sr. declared war against drug lords and their police protectors, he blessed Chief Supt. Isagani Cuevas, Police Regional Office (PRO-6) director, to lead the job.
He was right on target. RD Cuevas made waves in cleansing PRO-6.
Senior Supt. Roybel Sanchez, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-6) head, assisted […]

THE NATIONAL Food Authority (NFA) is planning to increase the price of imported rice in the market. A lot of people don’t have the faintest idea that this nagging rumor poses a great threat to the survival of our poor countrymen.
For all we know, NFA has to import rice to cushion the negative impact of […]

THE COST OF FUEL has increased seven times last week. Oil by-products are also spiraling. With prices of prime commodities going up daily, I cannot imagine how a jobless father of a family of four can survive.
The letter written by an 11-year-old girl to her family before committing suicide in Davao City two months ago disproved […]

THE AGING SACADAS – the underpaid sugarcane plantation workers – in Negros Occidental have never known how it feels to be rich until now when their children are venturing for a better future abroad. Believe it or not, some of these young men now work in South Korea and earn at least a million and […]

AFTER a prolonged legal battle, Dr. Ramon Guerra Jr., chief of the West Visayas State University Medical Center (WVSUMC), received an order dismissing him from the hospital. But he has filed a motion for reconsideration with the Board of Regents (BOR) that meted the dismissal order and he continues to stay in office.
To recall, he […]

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THINGS are just getting too exciting on the so-called Gucci Gang controversy after alleged swindler DJ Montano broke his silence on Korina Today at ANC Friday evening, where he repeatedly denied he bilked Australian landscape designer […]

WESTERN VISAYAS has 504 refilling stations of purified drinking water but only 154 have accreditation from the Department of Health (DOH). A lot of them have not secured the DOH stamp of approval. As to why, we have yet to know.
Last year, Iloilo City has 113 registered-operational water refilling stations. But reports disclose that only […]

IN THIS corner the other day, I wrote about the courage of three cancer victims, hoping to inspire other victims and their relatives to move on and never lose hope. I started by announcing that lawyer-journalist Cornelio “Kune” Panes had finally hurdled his last dose of chemotherapy as if it were some kind of graduation. Yesterday, […]

ANGER SURELY forced Congressman Niel “Junjun” Tupas, Jr. to call his cousin Vice Governor Rolex Suplico a mad dog. What really mattered in this story were the discovered ghost conferences of Congressman Tupas when he was still a Provincial Board Member.
But if I were to confer a title to the vice governor, I would call him […]

IN A RECENT edition of The Daily Guardian on Air over Aksyon Radyo, National Food Authority provincial manager Hedy Jardeleza and Department of Agriculture Region 6 director Larry Nacionales assured the public that there is no problem as far as rice supply is concerned.
But the challenge that lies ahead is more daunting. “If our population is […]