MEDIUM RARE Their power is absolute. Notwithstanding the sworn declarations of DOJ, SEC, BIR, BI, PEZA, living witnesses to history and other invited resource persons, these experts’ statements of facts are repudiated in favor of the “conclusions” of a three-person technical working group...
MEDIUM RARE Of the three must-do’s mandated by health authorities to keep people COVID-free, the third is the most difficult to follow. Wear a mask. Wash your hands frequently. Observe social distancing. How to tell Filipinos to keep their distance from family, friends, neighbors, lovers and...
MEDIUM RARE Dingdong Dantes, GMA’s leading leading man, leads a newly formed group of actors and directors – AKTOR – who see the world closing in on the TV, movie and entertainment industry. It’s not just the shutdown of the largest network that has displaced producers, directors, actors,...
MEDIUM RARE Open the economy or “people will simply die because of lack of livelihood.” President Duterte will call a special session of the Senate and House of Representatives to pass a stimulus package to revive the economy. In the same breath, certain congressmen are eager to kill the...
MEDIUM RARE Super-PRRD has a solution to Taal’s tempestuous temper tantrums. He’ll show the volcano how tough he can be, by eating the ashes as they fall and pissing into the lake. A myth in the making! The eruptions – the volcano’s -- are no longer merely phreatic or even magmatic, because...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Yap Daza Mrs. Jae Kim, wife of US Ambassador Sung Kim, has fond memories of the Philippines to take home when her husband winds up his tour of duty. “Christmas is really special here,” she said over dinner days before 2020 kicked in. Hosted by Lin Bildner at Baguio Country...
MEDIUM RARE Some lucky people are planning an extended vacation in Baguio as the temperature is expected to drop further from the 11.4 C recorded last Saturday. The cool climate is for everyone, but sooner than later, the city will no longer be able to accommodate everyone unless they go up by foot...
MEDIUM RARE A year of widows, 2019, as I’ve noted. Now I should add that two female colleagues didn’t make it to the feast of the Three Kings yesterday. Sylvia Mayuga wrote “30” on the last day of 2019. Ninez Cacho Olivares’ last column in the Daily Tribune was dated Jan. 3, 2020, the...
MEDIUM RARE If you believe your wise old grannies and elderly aunts, the saying is that any year that ends in 9 is bound to be associated with events sad or bad. Last year, crowned by an annular solar eclipse, was not one to end on a note of collectively gladsome memories. On a mountain of natural...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Before NLEX, SCTEX, TPLEX and all those time-saving expressways, the trip to Baguio for us kids of the last century was four to five hours long. Today, with all the infrastructures and RFID, it’s still four to five hours, if you’re lucky. Time-saving expressways?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What kind of policemen do we have who need to be told, over and over again, reminded from here to eternity, that they are not allowed to accept gifts or bribes, not to take what is not theirs? Do they have to be told to wear their uniform with spiff and pride? Those...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Gender equality demands that girls be acknowledged as bullies, too. Their bullying can be just as cruel, in the form of verbal-psychological abuse. I’ve seen girls bullying girls and heard stories of such incidents happening in “exclusive” schools where the rule is...
