PRESIDENT Duterte on his frustrations with the Commission on Audit: “Ihulog sa hagdan.” Push them down the stairs. COA Commissioner’s advice to auditors: “Avoid the stairs.” Presidential Spokesman Sal Panelo attributed Mr. Duterte’s threat to his usual hyperbolic language, a result of the agonizingly meticulous care with which state auditors study every peso and […]
Continue reading …SHE belongs to the universe now, but she is ours first, with Australia also claiming her as their own. Catriona Gray, Miss Universe 2019, can’t help it. She’s a child of a third culture. Her mother Filipino, her father Scottish. With blood of the Philippines and Scotland flowing in her veins, she was […]
Continue reading …OUR “heirloom” Christmas ornaments packed away, suddenly the living room looks so empty, almost as bare as the calendar on the wall. (The year 2018 came and went, and still no win for Jess Arranza in his fight to save Uniwide owner Jimmy Gow from his money managers, whose “betrayal” cost him a […]
Continue reading …THE miracle of Quiapo is not the traditional, etched-in-stone show of faith and fervor by a multitude of devotees willing to risk their lives to venerate a miraculous image, the Black Nazarene. The miracle is that, if we wanted to, we could clean up the plaza and make it look like a piazza, […]
Continue reading …GENDER equality demands that girls be acknowledged as bullies, too. Their bullying can be just as cruel, in the form of verbal-psychological abuse. I’ve seen girls bullying girls and heard stories of such incidents happening in “exclusive” schools where the rule is to be prim and proper, most of the time anyway. But […]
Continue reading …WHEN I was a kid, the trip to Baguio on four wheels was all of four to five hours. Today, a hundred years later, it’s still five to six hours, all those expressways, NLEX, SCTEX, TPLEX notwithstanding – with the accompanying tolls to pay at the traffic-stopping toll plazas – as if there […]
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