By Alithea De Jesus Nothing is more annoying for a motorist is...
Thursday, 22 October, 2020
Joel Reyes Zobel
By Joel Reyes Zobel Actually, hindi po ito una sa Tagaytay. Ginawa na ito sa Albay ng pumutok ang bulkang Mayon. Ang paniwala nuo ng dating Albay Governor at ngayo’y...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Ang pagbabasa at maintindihan kung ano ang binasa ang ibig sabihin ng reading comprehension. Ang pagiging matatas ang sukatan ng kagalingan ng tao na maintindihan ang...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Tigil putakan sa SEA Games, makatutulong ba sa imahe ng Pilipinas sa mata ng mundo? Pwede, pero superficial effect o mababaw lamang na paraan ito para...
Ipinag-utos na ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang walang humpay na pagpasok ng imported na bigas sa bansa. Ang kautusan ay inilabas ng Pangulo para maibsan ang problema ng mataas na...
“Huwag mo naman i-discriminate kaming mga Bisaya na kumakain ng mais bilang pan-saing”. Yan naman ang bungad sa akin ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol sa aking panayam sa kanya sa...
Huwag ho kayo magkakamali, pero ako ay kakampi ng war on drugs ng Pangulong Duterte. Nakikiisa po tayo sa adhikaing matuldukan ang problema ng iligal na droga sa bansa at...
Perry Diaz
By Perry Diaz On February 22, 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping vowed for the first time that China should take the lead in shaping the “new world order” and safeguarding...
By Perry Diaz Embroiled in controversy, the Safe Philippines project is facing strong opposition in the Philippine Senate due to negative reports about the contractor’s ties with China. Allegations are that...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz China’s quest for world dominion With the recent participation of the Philippines in China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) Initiative last November 2018, one doesn’t fail...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz ‘Whatever Xi wants, Xi gets’ Some call it “debt-trap diplomacy.’’ Some call it “debt-book diplomacy.” But it doesn’t sound diplomatic at all. The key word here is “debt.” And in...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Is the Philippines the next Djibouti? A tiny impoverished but strategically located country by the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the Horn of Africa, Djibouti has become a...
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Colonialism from within When Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the island of Homonhon in Samar on the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany in 1521, he...
Monsi A. Serrano
By Samira Gutoc The mouthpieces of Duterte had been denying the President's involvement in shutting down one of the country's giant network, the ABS-CBN network. But on several occasions, the...
The mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant built by Westinghouse Photo from Wikipedia By Alithea De JesusThe Philippine is not just one of the countries in Asia with the highest power...
By Monsi A. Serrano With the recent prediction of the surge in US$ against Philippine Peso which I mentioned in my previous column, another black eye hits the world and inevitably...
By Monsi A. Serrano For years, I have been conducting various workshops to private, government, and non-government entities apart from my talks whenever I am invited by various educational institutions...
With our 120th Year of Philippine Independence, we can truly claim we are blessed for having courageous forefathers who put their lives and never hesitated to shed bloods in the...
Atty. Josephrally Chavez Jr.
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. An income or any inflows into the hands of the taxpayer other than a mere return of capital may either be a taxable income,...
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. Donation in its simplest term is an act of generosity, big-heartedness, or a charity at that. Legally speaking, it is the act of liberality...
Why Wait for the Tax Amnesty? By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. A tax amnesty is a general pardon or intentional overlooking by the State of its authority to impose...
A certificate of stock is a written instrument signed by the proper officer of a corporation stating or acknowledging that the person named in the document is the owner of...
Another thing that is certain, of course, it is tax. While the power to tax is inherent in every state, in our jurisdiction,”to tax or not to tax” is primarily...
Taxes are what we pay for an orderly, refined, advanced, humanized and developed society. Taxes are what we pay for the existence our government. Taxes are what we pay literally...
Butz Bartolome
By Armando O. Bartolome For the “millennials”, the greatest gifts that technology may have given to them are laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets. You may never find anyone without a...
By Armando O. Bartolome The other day while watching a popular telenovela I saw a string of commercials of various businesses. I must have lost count of the number. However...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome I always start my day with a prayer thanking the Lord for giving me another chance at life, see new opportunities and be with my loved...
By Armando O. Bartolome From the many encounters I have had with entrepreneurs, I am often asked for advice on how to make a business grow and even bloom? Frankly,...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome In one of the conferences I was invited, I heard a speaker say entrepreneurs are Stewarts and not owners. As I pondered on his statement, I...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome The necessity for most stay-at-home-moms to join the workforce may seem to be increasing as the economic condition continues to plunge. And to run a family...
Manuel Morato
By Manuel L. Morato Two days ago at about 9:45 A.M., a warrant of arrest was served to me and received in my guardhouse from the Regional Trial Court, Branch...
By Manuel L. Morato The time we are all in calls for avoiding crowded places for obvious reasons. “Social distancing” is a glamorized term to use, which simply means keeping...
By Manuel L. Morato As the United States presidential election is fast approaching, things are getting too heated up. The election is scheduled on November 3, 2020 or some forty-plus...
By Manuel L. Morato Maria Azucena Vera-Perez Maceda whom I called Marichu since our younger days passed away last September 7; wife of the late Senator Ernesto “Ernie” Maceda, a...
By Manuel L. Morato I don’t think it’s proper for some public officials to wear their face masks in places considered safe. For example, I’d like to ask why and...
By Manuel L. Morato After over two years defending the rights of our late mother’s estate, my sisters are the most aggrieved for the demolition of the ancestral home of...
Robert Roque
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Learning should be fun. But we have to admit that the coronavirus pandemic has robbed our young learners of campus life – a big part...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Rocked by a P15-billion (probably more) anomaly, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. is in a rut. Imagine the great Westerns showing the cowboy buried with...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. It’s peculiar how bilateral relations with a world superpower such as the United States – which ride on high-stakes issues as the economy, investments, mutual...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. From the Space Race of the Cold War-era to the race to save humanity from this 21st-century pandemic, Russia could not have picked a more...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Ano ba talaga ang nangyari sa drug convict na si Jaybee Sebastian? Ano ang totoo: Namatay, pinatay o buhay ba siya? Ayon sa Bureau of...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. We should look to our neighbor Indonesia in admiration after it protected its territorial waters successfully from Chinese intrusion. It is a feat that our...
