Opinion

By Anthony A. Araos Kiangan! It’s summer time and this municipality offers a lot of sites for local and foreign tourists to visit. You want a change of scenery in ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD The Cordillera region is a proud host of the first national organic agriculture scientific conference in the Philippines. This was undertaken by the Organic Agriculture ...

By Antonio P. Pekas Lent just came and now already gone. Whenever the New Year comes, it means Lent is just around the corner. When Lent comes, the Christmas songs ...

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD It was just before the Holy Week when the patient suddenly again felt a burning pain at his epigastric area. Because he felt this before ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. That fierce and unpleasant encounter with BusinessWorld columnist Bienvenido Oplas Jr. whose output I shared with you recently had an unintended positive result: the blowing up ...

By Anthony A. Araos A great place for local or foreign tourists (trekkers, in particular) to relax, rejuvenate while being not too far from the town proper is Bogya Hot ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD The last time I saw Ormoc City was 23 years ago, three years after it was devastated by a flash flood in 1991 that killed ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas One of the early statements of PDu30 when he won the presidency was to revive the defunct ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) supposedly for nationalism ...

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD It was in the wee hours when the patient went to the hospital because of pain in the right lower quadrant of his abdomen. As ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. (This letter to the editor was published by the Philippine Star online edition --- was unable to check the printed copies --- on April 29, 2017 ...

By Anthony A. Araos Over the next three weeks there is still time for most Filipinos as well as foreign tourists to consider some of Ifugao’s finest organic farms as ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD Momshies is a colloquial word of endearment to mommies, or super mommies to some. The word was introduced by a local television talk show aired ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Before the year ends, the Supreme Court will implement the continuous trial system for criminal cases. The intention is to unclog court dockets and to ...

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD It was on the 1st week of May this year when the Saint Louis University Hospital of the Sacred Heart celebrated its 40th anniversary. For ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. (I sent this letter to the editor to several newspapers with print screens of the messages of the official Globe Facebook and email accounts stating different ...

By Anthony A. Araos Ifugao has a few still unexplored, little-heard of caves for local and foreign tourists to visit this time of the year. Balweg cave is surely one ...

By Danilo P. Padua, PhD After a precocious and propitious introduction of Mr. Zac Sarian to developmental agri-journalism (or developmental journalism as some would put it), he had continued to ...

By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas Despite the evils of PGMA’s administration, the Mountain Province people have to be thankful to her. She channeled a lot of money to that province ...

By Tedler D. Depaynos, MD Smoking is the consumption of tobacco by burning it in the mouth. In the Ilocos provinces where you could see some elderly ladies burning it ...

By Estanislao Albano, Jr. Netizen 7: Pudno dayta sir franklin. Maysa ak a naitao a pangdua la a bulan a sumagid ti inapuy iti ngiwatko. Kalpasan dua bulan kamoti laengen ...