Opinion

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas The way the market is, farmers from the suburbs with their hand carried small bags of produce can directly talk with the stall holders who ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. In a recent news release, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II) which is at the end of its three-year term alleged that the involvement ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Unfortunately for the many teachers who had hoped to have their lessons be etched into their students’ head for most of their lives, I have ...

Is the barangay assembly day still relevant? This and other related questions were surely answered in the just-conducted barangay assembly day in Haliap, Asipulo. Punong Barangay Lawrence Putac explains why ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Many Filipinos leave their motherland for the sake of chasing better opportunities abroad. To feed their families they must leave them and work for a ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Scenes of grieving victims and devastation wrought by typhoon Tino, especially in Cebu, tore into the hearts of every compassionate Filipino. It is the same ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. When asked by the media in November 2023 for the total number of non-readers and slow readers in the country, then Education Secretary Sara Duterte had ...

By Anthony A. Araos Hope and progress flourish where good leadership begins. And along these ideals live marginalized communities that still struggle for a better life. Its truly a rare ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas I was reading somebody’s post middle of last night about worries on getting old and I could not help but mutter, “we cannot help it, ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas There was this group I joined when I was still based in Metro Manila. Their activities were for the members’ prosperity or for their economic ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Meet Eden Cawang, the quintessential indigenous culture artist. She is known as Ayonna in the art world. That’s her native name. This name is appended ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas To this day, we are able to remember all the saints and the rest of the dead, their actions recognized or unrecognized, because of their ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. In yet another breathtakingly misguided and obviously detrimental move, instead of finally enforcing the mothballed DepEd Order No. 45, s. 2002, its policy prohibiting the passing ...

By Anthony A. Araos So while they’re singing at the chorale contest during the Lagawe Senior Citizens Day program at the Lagawe Central School gymnasium for attending the Barangay Assembly ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Offhand, I am not a big fan of big buildings. If I have my way on the matter, the best actual development for the city ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Many people have opined that Filipinos, as a whole, do not have their own unique identity. Maybe they are right. It is a fact that ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas DepEd has recently announced that October 27-30 be a “wellness break” and suspends classes for public schools on the mentioned days. The break is meant ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. In a post in its Facebook page on September 16, 2025, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II) reiterated that the amount of cumulative expenditure ...

By Anthony A. Araos Ifugao’s pursuit of a well-attuned program to promote the people’s health also comes at a time when poor folks at the capital town of Lagawe are ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas It has been some time now since the start of our semester. Exams are again at our doorstep. Assignments are never-ending and the stress-level of ...