Following the issued Joint Memorandum Circular No. 3 series of 2020 where...
Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
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 As I am writing this column, President Donald Trump has only two days left in his presidency. Then he will go into retirement. It must be hard...
By Perry Diaz Once again, President Donald J. Trump played the game of “chicken” when he held up the $900 billion COVID relief stimulus bill by demanding that direct payments...
By Perry Diaz For four years, we saw the meteoric rise of Donald J. Trump from a reality show producer to the President of the United States. That’s a quantum...
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...
Monsi A. Serrano
By Monsi A. SerranoThe pandemic has brought us down to our knees literally and figuratively. Literally, because many have knelt down in prayer, now more spiritually mindful of what will happen to them...
By Monsi A. Serrano The pandemic should spur love, understanding and compassion. But while many people seem to be hopeful and bullish for the year 2021, vaccine diplomacy in the Philippines...
By Monsi A. Serrano One thing that makes Canada a good place to get a license, is the fact that you will be disciplined. You’d have to work hard to...
By Monsi A. Serrano “Tough year, eh!” Canadians would say. The truth is, tough is an understatement. For me, it was a soul-breaker year as many lives were lost, many...
By Monsi A. Serrano Amid the noise of violence, sickness and despair that have raged in the news this year, I’d like to use the opportunity of this Christmas Eve...
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...
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 "BUTZ" Bartolome Starting a business may not be possible for everyone due to some factors such as determining how to set up a business, dealing with various challenges...
By Armando "BUTZ" 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 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,...
Manuel Morato
By Manuel L. Morato If indeed the vaccines will be sampled on our people before allowing us to buy the vaccine, may I suggest that the vaccines be tested on...
By Manuel L. Morato Your Honor, please allow me to explain... For some reason or another, a case we filed in the DOJ Quezon City in the sala of Prosecutor...
By Manuel L. Morato Jose L. Morato wrote letters addressed to my sisters: Elvira Morato Cuenca, Teresita Lazatin and Lolita Quiros through Teresita, that the case of Syndicated Estafa and...
By Manuel L. Morato Ang pinakamalaking problema pag dumating na ang Covid vaccine ay kung sino ang mag-apply sa mga tao. Remember, ang target ng gobiyerno ay 30 million people. ...
By Manuel L. Morato In the spirit of the Christmas Season, I wish to greet those friends who have been kind; and to those who’ve been unkind I leave that...
By Manuel L. Morato I see what happened to us in our residential neighborhood as an abuse of those in power in Quezon City. When in power, the more one...
Robert Roque
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. For someone who is not running for president next year, San Miguel Corp. President Ramon S. Ang has undoubtedly been working to solve many of...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. A recent Pulse Asia survey tells us that 47 percent of Filipinos are hesitant or even afraid to take any coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine....
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Public outrage is a blunt force. Often, it is delivered with uncalculated consequences. It is petrifying to be on the receiving end of it as...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr.While the deadline set for this column prohibits me from reacting to yesterday’s developments in the Senate, this is one of the strange days when I...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Having to settle usually means shortchanging oneself. This should not be the case for Filipinos when it comes to our supply of the COVID-19 vaccine....
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, managing to make himself the villain again, is driving me crazy. Senator Panfilo Lacson Jr. recently dropped a bombshell, nay,...
