Not solely due to climate change
Moving the opening of classes from June to September stirred much excitement among students from grade school to college. The immediate thought was that, for the time being, this will protract the summer vacation,...
Who is in and out?
Three and a half months after the storm surge and hurricane-like wind of the traumatizing supertyphoon Yolanda have rendered thousands of families in 63 towns and 2 cities of Eastern Visayas homeless, hundreds of...
Mayor Alfred inspires Tacloban “Yolanda” victims
Some 2,000 people attended the 100th day gathering for remembrance to scores of victims of the strongest-ever Yolanda typhoon that hit Tacloban and other areas of Eastern Visayas, November 8, 2013. They felt so...
“…A Dismal Failure”?
Senator Franklin Drilon, a minority leader revealed that based in the official record on the implementation of the “Build-Build-Build” program of this administration has failed to realize its objective. Of the 75 flagship projects...
Thai princess in the city
TACLOBAN CITY- A real princess stepped inside a “reel” palace in the city for an hour and expressed her “amazement” on how the place remained well-maintained. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, whose family is...
On feeding program budget
The move of the Senate to increase the Department of Education (DepEd) budget for school feeding from P3.97-billion to P7.58-billion is commendable enough but it could have ill-effects and disadvantages if the program implementation...