IN support to the campaign against illegal drugs by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Sec. Raul M. Gonzalez, Sr., this writer took time to gather information about drug-abuse and its ill-effects to users or addicts.
Shabu or Methamphetamine hydrochloride - has both the adverse-acute and long-term effects that redound to anxiety, tension, irritability, irrational behavior, talkativeness […]

ON AUGUST 2, 2007, a high ranking female officer of the Commission on Audit (COA) was gunned down in Zamboanga City on her way to work. In a police report, the incident was witnessed by a street-sweeper named Banot
The next day, alias “Junjun” and alias “Tata” were arrested in a raid conducted by the joint […]

“THERE IS EVIL ever around fundamental systems of government, quite incidental. So go where you’re able and stay there unstable, lift up your hate in some tottering states, but not here dear.” So sings Eva Peron in the Broadway musical Evita as she waltzes with her number one critic Ernesto “Che” Guevarra. This lyrical genius […]

IMAGINE this – courteous traffic aides efficiently guiding tour buses through the streets and thoughtful enforcers against jaywalking and littering; resourceful and reliable street sweepers keeping trash out of the road at the break of dawn; obliging and supportive sidewalk vendors picking up scatters around their stalls during the day; and a cooperative public preserving […]

TODAY we remember the late Manuel Luis Molina Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, because it’s his 130th birthday anniversary. He was born on August 19, 1878.
In fact, we remember Quezon the whole month of August because the month has been declared Lung Month in his honor. He died of tuberculosis, in his […]

LATE in the 90s, there was no Smallville. There was no such thing as “The Ultimate Hangout” for high school, college kids, yuppies, and the rest of the Ilonggo youth of that generation. Hangouts back then would either be the carenderias that surrounded the school, make-shift beer joints nestled in a street corner, or even […]

SIX months ago, I wrote in this corner that only one Korean-owned English language school in Iloilo City, the New International Language Center (39 Arguelles St., Jaro), had registered with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). I found that out after seeing TESDA Provincial Director Lorena Yunque.
Of course, nobody in his right mind […]

THIS writer has joined the call to be extra careful from buying mortgaged subdivision lots. If you are a buyer you must be cautious and choosy in signing a contract to sell or you might be another victim of some owners/developers who are violators of PD 957 –Subdivision and Condominium Buyers Protective Decree.
Here’s one story: […]

IT SEEMS the Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Raul Gonzalez dislikes the Regional Director of the Department of Health, Field Unit 6, Director Lydia Depra Ramos. On why we have yet to know.
But this writer has a story of medicine anomaly in DOH Field Unit 6 at Mandurriao, Iloilo City. It was only their misfortune […]

TWO YEARS have lapsed since August 11, 2006 when Motor Tanker Solar I sank off the coast of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras and triggered the worst oil spill in the country.
The tanker settled 2,000 ft. in the sea bottom where water pressure is at 65 tons/sq.ft. and the temperature at 15 degrees centigrade.
M/T Solar I was […]