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Justice Ruben T. Reyes of the Court of Appeals appointed to the Supreme Court
A NEW Supreme Court Associate Justice has been appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Justice Ruben T. Reyes takes on the post after serving as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals (CA) where he had served starting as associate justice in March, 1994.
Triumph of the poor at Smokey Mountain
By Fidel V. Ramos
"TUNGO sa Tunay na Paglaya (Towards Becoming Truly Free)" is the declared hope of three generations of residents of the Old Smokey Mountain (OSM). Our column last Sunday traced the transformation of OSM – which used to be the stinking symbol not so long ago of the Philippines as the sick man of Asia – into what its community leaders now call "Paradise Heights."
Five major thrusts in agriculture
By Edgardo J. Angara
AGRICULTURE, including food processing, accounts for two thirds of our gross domestic product – that’s how huge this sector is and how vital it is to our economy. In three years, our population will grow to about 100 million, and we have to find ways to feed all of them. This poses a great challenge to our agriculture sector.
National Day of Vietnam
THE Socialist Republic of Vietnam celebrates today its 62nd National Day.
Commemorating the end of the Second World War in the Pacific
ON September 2, 1945, on board the battleship USS Missouri, representatives of the Allied Powers – the then Republic of China, the Republic of France, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States – and the Foreign Minister of Japan, signed the document that formally ended World War II. The 23-minute ceremony was broadcast around the world, especially in the countries that had seen so much destruction during the preceding years.
DENR Land Management Bureau celebrates 106th Founding Anniversary
THE Land Management Bureau (LMB) is the policy-making body of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) with regard to the efficient and effective administration and management of alienable and disposable (A&D) lands and other lands not placed under the jurisdiction of other government agencies. The LMB assists the government in updating the classification of lands and in issuing titles. With around 14 million hectares of A&D lands under the LMB’s responsibility, the agency has continued to work on the titling of these lands through various means. In addition to this work, the Bureau has also conducted cadastral surveys covering cities and municipalities. These cadastral surveys are important in continuing the land titling effort and in providing titles to land users that are needed to secure loans and propel their productivity.
Parable on rash judgement
By BEL R. SAN LUIS, SVD
A YOUNG lady was waiting for her flight in the boarding room of a big airport.
Some controversial issues
By RENE ESPINA
I HAVE no interest whatsoever in any past or pending government contract. The only concern that I have is that of an ordinary citizen who wants the best in supplies, materials that the government is contracting for at the lowest cost. I believe I have had enough experience in government service, that I could readily see when certain government projects are either overpriced, not urgently needed or inappropriate. For example, the asphalt material that is used to pave our roads which at first contact with rain melts like tar. There is a reason for this. . .graft. You see there is money in ordering first-class asphalt mix, but the material delivered is of garbage quality. Besides, when it rains again there is more money to be made. Another example is skyways that are not needed or are too expensive, when a reclamation plus ten lane highways will do the job. The sale of reclaimed areas would give back to government the expenditure including a huge profit. Hong Kong has made billions of dollars through the said scheme.
Rice culture: A matter of time & timing
By GELIA T. CASTILLO
National Scientist and Academician National Academy of Science and Technology
ALTHOUGH our everyday life is governed by clock time and in many offices by a bundy clock, in rice culture, clock time is rarely ever the arbiter of what to do. It is the rice crop in its location-specific habitat, both natural and human, which determines what is done, when, how and by whom. Most everything we do with rice has time and space dimensions which impact on human lives.
Conduct of invited guests and hosts
Luke 14:1, 7-14
The Jefferson Bible
By Nelly Favis Villafuerte
MANY of us remember Thomas Jefferson as a president of the United States (third president, 1801-1809). Others the world over remember him as the principal author of the US Declaration of Independence. Still, not a few Americans remember Thomas Jefferson as the author of a bill in the state of Virginia which established religious freedom thereby instituting the separation of church and state in Virginia. To Christian writers and researchers, Thomas Jefferson is the author of a compilation of the teachings of Jesus found in some sections of the four gospels in the Holy Bible which is known today as the Jefferson Bible. These compiled words of Jesus influenced Jefferson’s statesmanship. He believed that the ethical systems of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. The author of the Jefferson Bible is the same person who said that "the Bible makes the best people in the world."
Wrangling about the economy
By ADRIAN E. CRISTOBAL
THE working classes are never content with the economy, for no matter how much it grows, wages are never high enough and jobs numerous enough to bridge the gap between haves and haves-not to justify universal jubilation.
Fat kids
By DR. BRIX PUJALTE
A THIN line exists between cute and chubby, and fat and dangerously unhealthy.
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