BACOLOD CITY — Despite perceptions of a corrupt bureaucracy, we have many honest people. People, by nature, still have honesty in their hearts.
Last week, a lady employee, aboard a “Love Bird” taxi left her bag containing the payroll of her office.
She went straight to “Bombo Radyo” which was just a short distance from where she [...]

BACOLOD CITY — Finance Secretary Gary Teves was quoted the other day as saying that the improved economy is not being felt by the poor.
Teves said the fast growth of the population has been the culprit.
Teves is correct that the economic growth has not been felt by the poor. But if the so-called economic improvement [...]

BACOLOD CITY — Let’s be fair with Bacolod Rep. Monico O. Puentevella. He did not partake of that costly dinner in a New York restaurant that reportedly cost nearly a million pesos.
He must have been thinking of the millions of hungry families here who cannot eat full three square meals a day. Sensitivity!
Where was he? [...]

BACOLOD CITY — Corazon C. Aquino has left lessons on humility. And also the importance of character.
Last week, our friend, former Talisay City Vice Mayor Nilo Boy Lizares texted me, at the height of praises heaped on Cory.
Said Boy Lizares: “Think about this. There is always someone better than you are. Someone more attractive… Someone [...]

BACOLOD CITY — All these years I have noted our readers have preference for poetry over politics.
Not so many seem to mind when I write about politics. But my columns on poetry always get so many feedback.
Roberto A. Alaban Jr., who confesses he has been our avid reader all these years, wrote he was always [...]

I was very much impressed by the presentation of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) of the years President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo held the Philippine presidency.
This was before she delivered her one-hour speech of the State of the Nation. The presentation was complete, exhaustive, and honest. It showed the strong points of the President as well [...]

BACOLOD CITY — We attended the induction of the new officers of the Bacolod Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Business Inn Saturday night, led by its new president Ben Ortega with Dr. Alfonso Uy as guest speaker.
China and the influence of its overseas people on our life as well as its history are [...]

BACOLOD CITY — Saturday last week when I published the poetry sent me by my friend, Lito del Rosario, so many told me they liked it.
The other day, a friend who asked not to be identified, sent me a poem “Poets Sing of Brotherhood and Peace” by Celso Carunungan.
In this turbulent world, let me share [...]

BACOLOD CITY — Crisis is not bad all the time. The arrest order by the Sandiganbayan on a case allegedly made several years ago and revived only now to embarrass former Neg. Occ. Governor and now Sugar Regulatory Administrator Rafael Coscolluela is making a hero out of him.
Lately, Confed represented by its president Rey Bantug [...]

BACOLOD CITY — This is not really a bad world.
The common complaint is, you fight corruption, the public does not seem to care. So, why the heck bother? The corrupt runs against you. And you are alone.
But Sugar Regulatory Administrator Rafael Coscolluela, former Negros Occidental Governor has proven that if he comes out like a [...]