Former Deputy Speaker and Pangasinan 3rd district Rep. Rose Marie Arenas has just received a rare honor among parliamentarians in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Former Pangasinan 3rd district Rep. Rose Marie Arenas (2nd from left, standing) receives her Distinguished Service...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza First of all, there are five different meanings of market, but for our purposes market refers to “palengke” in the vernacular, that is, a place to buy goods and stuff, or merchandise of a particular type such as meat, fish, vegetables. Trade Secretary Fred Pascual...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A colleague used to call it a “pay day economy” because no one pulled out bills from their wallet until the day after the 15th and 30th of the month to pay for rent, food, utilities and other obligations. They couldn’t plan on going on a movie date or to the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza ‘Tis the season, between Halloween and Christmas, or haven’t you noticed? There’s mobs and chaos at the airport terminals, with a history of 24 million travelers landing at or departing from NAIA between January and October 2022. Now, with such an urge as “revenge...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Weeks before he was appointed to take stewardship of GSIS, Wick Veloso boldly stated that electricity rates could (should?) go down by 50 percent. He was president of PNB at the time but what he said made us commoners hopeful that together with private citizen-pundit...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Oh, the people you meet at a tree lighting! Especially when tree rhymes with duty-free, as in Duty Free Philippines, where imported meets Philippine-made, global grade. Tourism Secretary Christina G. Frasco arrived at Duty Free’s Luxe boutique at the center of Mall of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For one whose life was once lived snapping a perpetual “Yes, sir” to his superiors in the military, where the unwritten law is “No talk, no mistake,” Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong is now saying that “people should feel government” enough to act and...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Thinking of climbing up to the only fully airconditioned city in the Philippines? Do it now! Don’t wait for December, not for the New Year! Getting more crowded by the day, by the weekend, it is. The climate is almost Christmas-like, temperatures at minimum 16 to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Starting December, the Japanese government will cut household electricity bills by 20 percent to fight inflation. How envious could we get, we who are second only to Japan in the cost of electricity! Green up to the gills? We could also seek a reaction from the new DOE...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza How hard is it to make a choice between wearing a mask and not wearing one? Having been herded like docile little lambs every which way by IATF and NTF for two years, following their every do and don’t like they were god-like cult leaders, when the time came to decide...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time, a high-profile VIP was at her wits’ end wondering where she could tour her high-profile VVIP visitors from abroad. These were worldly, sophisticated travelers who flew from Paris to Prague at the drop of a coin, so the mission was to show them how the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A study in contrasts is a study in presidential styles. PRRD threatened to go house to house to vaccinate the unwilling in their sleep, even if the jab would need to be administered into one ear and out the other. Three days ago, PBBM went to an SM mall with his...
