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Rescue Them, Not Penalize Their Poverty

August 17, 2012 | Opinion

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GLIMPSES By Jose Ma. Montelibano My heart skipped a beat when I read what DPWH Secretary said about presidential instructions to relocate about 200,000 poor from their threatened habitat. These families are all living, if you can call it that after seeing their sardine-like existence, along river banks, esteros and drainage canals. I had written just last week that government and Philippine society cannot just Read More …

A great flood without a typhoon? Strange!

August 10, 2012 | Opinion

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SHOOTING STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila The Philippine Star Open and read the Bible or your history books and you will see s»at God always intervenes when it is necessary or worse, when God is already fed up with the evil that has captured the hearts of the people. You know too well the story of Sodom and Gomorrah or the Battle of Lepanto and Read More …

‘Sendong’ leaves 652 dead

December 18, 2011 | Politics & Government

Fatalities come from Cagayan de Oro, Iligan; 808 missing BY GERARD NAVAL and VICTOR REYES MALAYA TYPHOON “Sendong” left at least 652 people in Mindanao dead as it exited the Philippine area of responsibility yesterday afternoon, according to the Philippine Red Cross which also reported 808 missing. Most of the fatalities are from Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities which were hit by flashfloods. The Read More …

Zero-casualty possible if…

October 3, 2011 | Opinion

GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc The Philippine Star The justice department is to reinvestigate this week the murder of Palawan anti-mining broadcaster Dr. Gerry Ortega. The proceedings finally should instigate the trial of the nine-month-old heinous crime. Politicking has delayed justice far too long. A new prosecution team has told Ortega’s widow Patria to submit her vaunted new evidence to implicate Palawan ex-governor Joel Reyes. Reportedly Read More …