FOUNDED by seven civic-spirited citizens, the Philippine Constitution Association (Phil-consa) was organized 43 years ago as an association dedicated and committed to defend, preserve, and protect the Charter of the land and promote its growth and flowering as a vital and relevant document. Philcons
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AS if we didn’t have enough on our plates these days, Senate President Franklin Drilon announced while addressing the Manila Overseas Press Club that Filipinos may soon have to deal with a power crisis worse than what we experienced during the early 90s.
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REACTING to yesterday’s column about a group of South Korean lawyers who set up a website list of corrupt politicians, three young lawyer friends asked me whether their intrepid colleagues were still alive and practicing law. They felt that in our system, such a move would be dangerous to health and
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Where the ad hoc Cabinet committee failed in its three-year investigation of the scandalous Independent Power Producers scandal, the senators led by Juan Ponce Enrile and Miriam Defensor Santiago may succeed.
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THE farmer was fuming mad. For the third night in a row, unknown people stole fruits from his orchard.
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PRESIDENTIAL Proclamation No. 62 issued in 1992 declared the last week of September as Family Week and the fourth Monday of September as Family Day. The theme for this year’s Family Week celebration is “Pamilyang may Karakter, Tungo sa Matatag na Republika (Families of Character for a Strong Repu
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THE snappy salute to their Commander-in-Chief said it all. They are sorry. They are willing to face the consequences of their act. They promise not to do it again.
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WHERE oh where is the Road Map to Recovery? All the doctors know what went wrong but no one has come up with the right medicine.
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THE Banawe Rice Terraces is considered one of the wonders of the world. Miagao Church in Iloilo showcases native Philippine artistry and ingenuity. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared these sites as World Heritage Sites. Vigan, Ilocos Sur, and t
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AMIDST the country’s financial problems and negative events hogging the headlines, let’s not overlook some bright news that tend to be overshadowed by the bad.
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GENERAL Miguel C. Malvar was born on September 27, 1865, in Barrio San Miguel, Santo Tomas, Batangas. He was one of the first to join the Katipunan when it was established in Batangas and, with the help of fellow Batangueńos patriots such as Eleuterio Marasigan and Ildefonso Laurel, he rallied the p
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AN argument arose among the disciples about which of them was the greatest. Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child and placed it by His side and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in My name receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me. For the one
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THE greatness of a man is preserved not in the memories that are kept by those he left behind but in the many legacies he bestowed on his country and people. Observing the 94th Birth Anniversary of President Diosdado P. Macapagal is one way of recalling the many contributions he made for the Philipp
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THE President, in her apparent stance as a "healing leader,’’ may have her reasons for accepting the apologies of the failed putschists, but a military academic and a congressman have raised doubts about the wisdom of her decision.
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MOST of us are fully cognizant of our right to live: We have reason to insist that no one can take our life away, on the basis of mere whim or caprice or preference. Our life is ours to give. Since it is God’s very precious gift to us, it is for us to live it fully and meaningfully.
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FINALLY, I saw the fabulous Gold collection of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). If you have not seen it yet, you should do so right away. It gives you a psychic lift, that ego-massage one needs for dismal days. BSP Governor Rafael Buenaventura said the gold collection provides an insight into
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NEW YORK – Opening day of the United Nations General Assembly, which fell on Tuesday, September 21st this year, is always a mixture of excitement and frustration. Frustration from the hapless citizens of the city, with entire streets blocked off in the UN area, buses re-routed and total gridlock in
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THE Moon Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. In China, this feast of the harvest moon is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. People joyously hail this season of gathering, of reaping, of feasting. They believe that the moon has
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IF there are today approximately one million and a half overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) working in the Middle East and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea basin, with currently 4,000 workers in high-risk Iraq, it is to the self-preservation and national security interest of the Philippines to
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EVERY Filipino Catholic remembers the martyr San Lorenzo Ruiz on this date. San Lorenzo was the first native-born Filipino to be canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Binondo, Manila, he was the son of a Tagalog mother and a Chinese father. As a youth, he worked for the Dominicans
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IN previous articles, I referred to a serious problem blocking the way of the North Rail project — the riles residents by the tens of thousands will not leave "their homes" without a fight.
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LONG stories have been published in several local newspapers about the four ambassadors from member-countries (Libya, Iran, Bangladesh, and Pakistan) of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) who visited the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. ARMM Gov. Parouk Hussin prepared an elaborate we
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GOVERNMENT-owned and controlled corporations which have been hogging the front pages these past days assume a new image that is unabashedly unflattering to their managers.
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Luke 9:51-56
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