Opinion

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD I have always enjoyed watching practically all sports games, live or on TV, especially those involving Pinoy athletes. It’s some sort of a hobby for ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas We are so short handed I am often the only one to lay the issue of this paper to bed. And considering my highly compromised ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Moving quick and efficiently are both what we expect of our government. To walk into public institutions and expect the best. It is the reason ...

By Anthony A. Araos Going things with clear boundaries is an important strategy to improve the quality of services being delivered to the people. This is a scaled-up narrative of ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas If you are employed by the government or a government owned or controlled corporation, there are two things you should be prepared for. You should ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Online advertisements have always been a hassle. When you are on the internet, they are not something you can avoid but an inevitable obstacle you ...

By Anthony A. Araos Olilicon is one of the most impoverished villages in Ifugao. Saying that this remote barangay ever still existed in the government’s mind is absolutely the most ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Anybody who grew up in this country knows how inefficient and corrupt government is. And also government controlled corporations. When there was not much money ...

By Anthony A. Araos In response to the challenges faced by folks from the unemployment problem, municipal governments (even the provincial government) in Ifugao have usually resorted to conducting job ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Harampang. Yes, you are reading it right. The word does not start with a letter G. A Waray word, harampang means ,” to meet, converse ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Community immersion was an activity for our previous semester that I looked forward to the most. More than the accomplishment of our thesis or any ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas It was a lazy mid-afternoon the other day. My wife fetched me at the dialysis center although I could have gone back to the office ...

By Anthony A. Araos Who is this school figure you would still remember in your student days? Very likely you would say it’s the teacher and you would be drawn ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas I would like to quote the reaction of one of our readers, Dr. Rafael Barroso, who is a long-time friend since our college days in ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Among all the tests and requirements that make lives harder for students, it gets easy to be sucked in our own worlds and get hyper ...

By Anthony A. Araos I almost missed this two-day activity for cooperatives in Ifugao. Held at the new provincial capitol building in Lagawe, it handled concerns in governance and management ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Heart, harvest and harmony. These three words are part of a catchy theme of the 2026 Strawberry Festival. Add the word limitless, which hints of ...

By Jan Vicente B. Pekas Upon dismissal for our classes this semester, darkness envelops the streets as we get out of school gate. The same old view of students both ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas With the sky-high prices of everything, everybody has to search for survival tricks in their bags. But just like everything else, some are being hit ...

By Anthony A. Araos Expectedly, a large crowd gathered recently for the annual Women’s Month Celebration in Lagawe. Attendance was placed at about 700. Folks will be watching how women ...