Iloilo City, the next big thing – a roller coaster on Mar 15, 2010 in Herbert Vego Powwow WOW ◙ The Daily Guardian SOON, one will no longer have to go to Star City in Pasay City to experience a ride on a roller coaster. With the eventual completion of the second flyover in Iloilo City on Gen. Luna/Jalandoni junction – a few linear meters away from the Infante f...
Graft-ridden projects on Mar 12, 2010 in Torchlight Wenceslao Mateo Jr. ◙ The Daily Guardian WITH the May 2010 elections just about two months away, it is not surprising to see in this country a lot of projects being implemented by the Administration in the name of its candidates. Politicians think they know too well the weaknesses of the el...
Hildegarde and the ‘Goddess at Sunrise’ on Mar 11, 2010 in Ceres Doyo Human Face ◙ Philippine Daily Inquirer UNTYPICAL AND MYTH-SHATTERING BUT beautiful is the trophy that noted sculptor Agnes Arellano created for the Hildegarde Award for Women in Media and Communication. This award is conferred yearly during Women’s Month by the Mass Communication Depart...
It’s not ‘Villarroyo’ but ‘Marroyo’ on Mar 11, 2010 in Herbert Vego Powwow WOW ◙ The Daily Guardian APPARENTLY to demolish NP presidential candidate Manny Villar and boost the popularity of LP standard bearer Noynoy Aquino, LP “vice-presidentiable” Mar Roxas has renamed Villar “Villarroyo” for a reason: to implant in the public the percepti...
Desperado? on Mar 10, 2010 in Hole of Justice Peter Jimenea ◙ The Daily Guardian The reported grenade throwing incident in front of the residence of Mayor Jerry P. Trenas at around 2:30 in the morning, February 8, 2010, has surprised the great number of city residents. According to the mayor, it was a handiwork of his political r...
Alternative law on Mar 9, 2010 in Jigger Latoza Notions ◙ The Daily Guardian THIS April, the Supreme Court is expected to release the results of the 2009 Bar exams. The Bar is arguably the most awaited of all professional exams; in fact, the only one national broadsheets reserve front page space for. Recent Philippine history...
So little justice on Mar 8, 2010 in Hole of Justice Peter Jimenea ◙ The Daily Guardian The strict implementation of the rule on decency imposed by public officials at the Provincial Capitol and at the Justice Ramon Avancena Hall of Justice against the poor only reinforced the widespread public belief that in this society, the laws grin...
Selfish personal reason on Mar 8, 2010 in Raul Gonzalez Reflections from the Mirror ◙ Business Mirror In Tacloban City recently, Sen. Noynoy Aquino declared that the issue these days is not Ferdinand Marcos but President Arroyo. He added that his focus is not on Marcos, the Aquino family’s archenemy and which the Aquinos in the past have declared t...
Bureaucrat capitalism on Mar 7, 2010 in Artchil Fernandez Hot and Spicy ◙ The Daily Guardian IN the last sixty decades, national democrats had been preaching that there are three basic problems that ail Philippine society. These are imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. According to the national democratic movement, the three ism...
Traffic aide again on Mar 4, 2010 in Pet Melliza The Beekeeper ☼ IloiloViews A friend Peter J was apprehended by a traffic police and slapped a P200-fine, which he paid, for a strange violation called “disregarding”. He was not even driving at that time. He merely went to the PNP-Comelec checkpoint in Molo, Iloilo City to...
