Commentaries

“The day (January 29) I said it, was the day I decided it should be terminated.” Thus did President Rodrigo Roa Duterte aka Digong declare when he said he wanted the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States scrapped.  Surely, Digong’s foreign secretary, Teodoro “Tweeterboy” Locsin, Jr. knew this.  Why...

            Indeed, Taal’s devastations were overwhelming and encompassing. Time and again, it has been proven that whenever disasters happen in the country, social infrastructure including electricity shuts down for days or months, depending on the nature of the disaster and where it struck.              Right now, those who live...

Namundo ang bilog na kinaban lalo na ang mga sports enthusiasts sa biglaan na pagkagadan ni NBA legend Kobe Bryant nin huli sa aksidente sa saiyang helicopter. Segun sa kadaklan, very untimely ang sinabi ng pangyayari kung kaya padagus na pinagrurumdom asin pinagtatawan ning tribute ngonian ang mga agi-agi...

Ano nga ba ang mensahe ng mga nangyayaring kababalaghan sa Mundo nitong mga nakalipas na araw? Sa pagpasok ng year of the Rat, tila maraming mga nangyayaring scary sa ating mga kababayan. Una yong pagputok ng bulkan Taal na halos disyerto na ngayon ang ilang lugar sa...

Matindi ang naging pressure di umano sa kapitolyo nitong nakalipas na linggo. Ang iba raw ay nanghina, ang iba ay nagluksa, ang iba ay lumakas ang hina at ang iba nagkaroon ng alta presyon at muntik ng magkaroon ng nervous breakdown? Hikhikhikhik! Ang ilan umano sa mga empleyado...

Sa pangaran kan Bicol Peryodiko, minapaabot kami nin odok sa boot asin dakulang pagpapa-Dios Mabalos sa gabos na mga minasimbag ning satong pangapudan para tabangan ang mga apektado kan pagsabog kan bulkan sa probinsya nin Batangas. Dakul nin minadonar, cash or in kind bilang pagtumar aksyon sa sitwasyon na...

 (First of Three Parts)               Science Undersecretary and Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Sesimology (Phivolcs) director Renato Solidum Jr. exhorted authorities to speed up the mass evacuation of people from the danger zone around Taal Volcano, which continued to convulse and spew lava on Wednesday, January 15.              Reason is clear...

          Today as in the past, the months of November and December are the most critical and dangerous period in the Bicol Region as far as typhoons and its destructive aftermath are concerned. Most especially in Catanduanes which is today as in the past is originally famous...

As this year is ending (2019), I wish all the negativity and difficulties end with this year and 2020 bring success and happiness to all of us. Segun sa horoscope experts, “Year of the Rat is going to bring us creative energy, an energy which can manifest...

Ex-President Fidel Ramos, during whose term the onerous water concession contracts with Ayala’s Manila Water and Pangilinan’s Maynilad were forged, said “Our word must be our bond”.  “Our word” or “his word”?  He was the president.  He had the final say on whether the contracts should go through or...