LAST week, newspaper editor and publisher Alfred Dizon parked his van at 3:30 pm along Harrison Road, a national road, and paid the corresponding parking fees for two hours, plus the extra hour he needed. That means, his motor vehicle (MV) can occupy the parking space from 3:30 pm until [...]
NOTHING new. Corruption has been there since. When asked for its definition during an informal discussion around buckets of beers years ago, one philosopher defined it as the “absence of honesty” . I said it is illegal to profit in any form. It has many faces and comes in many [...]
WEDNESDAY morning, I was watching the news when the TV started dancing. It was 8:40 AM on my clock. The shaking became more violent so I had to hold the TV set. As the earthquake struck, people along Magsaysay Avenue were screaming and scampering in all directions. I could not [...]
ACCORDING to an official in the House of Representatives, President Marcos asked those in charge of preparations to keep his first State of the Nation Address simple so the public can focus their attention on his message. Everyone is wondering what Bongbong will tell us in his first SONA this [...]
AFTER VP Sara Duterte was appointed Department of Education (DepEd) secretary, President Bongbong Marcos chose to be secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA). Their respective decisions to take on the two departments were because education and agriculture in the country have been very problematic. By personally directing these agencies [...]
SOMETIME in the ‘90s when I managed another Courier, there was a story going around in watering holes about a bank employee who had been approving bank loan applications for her ballroom dancing circle even without the required collateral. Cases were filed against the employee and since these were already [...]
FAKE news is not new. It’s been everywhere now since things became hi-tech. With the recent increase in the use of social media, most especially Facebook, fake news has escalated and has even found its corner in the mainstream media. With this, honest and sincere media work is undermined. In [...]
THE town of Tinglayan in Kalinga, particularly Barangay Buscalan, was recently “put on the map” so to speak, due to good and bad events that took place recently. First, the bad news. CIDG files criminal cases against the Tinglayan village head. The punong barangay of Buscalan of this town in [...]
THERE was sad news last weekend about a Benguet farmers’ group that was purposely not invited to a farmers’ congress held this month at the capitol, following written and unwritten petitions by the group against illegally imported carrots, onions, other vegetables, and even strawberries that had been flooding lowland and [...]
“KAKAILYAN,” masapol mo ba ti tulong (townmates, do you need help)?” That line printed on a tarp and posted on fences, barangay halls, houses, and walls of sari-sari stores located along roadsides in Benguet is simply telling people in need of help to call the cellphone number on the poster. [...]