VIRUS is teaching us a fundamental lesson
The
universe, in all its terrible beauty, has a way of presenting us with as many
opportunities as it takes to learn life’s most fundamental lessons.
Not least of
these – recent days have again shown — is that there really are...
Stalemate
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno said, policies on issuing franchises— including the
question of whether the power should emanate from the House of
Representatives— can be revisited.
A former CJ said Congress can review its chambers' powers in
granting legislative franchises— amid...
NCOV-ARD: Is it a plague?
Apparently, the promise of new beginnings and new
opportunities worldwide in the New Year—2020-- is being spoiled and threatened
by a series of calamities and tragedies of different causes, dimensions and
magnitude. This early, however, events
happen and came to pass either good or bad in...
Oplan Tabang Taal Initiative
This early in the year 2020, in the light of the Dickensian
dictum that the “worst of times is the best of times,” the management and staff
of Bicol Peryodiko and 3-yea-old sister outfit --Radyo Peryodiko (DWFB-FM, 96.7
mhz)--- scrambled into action and out on...
Worse and Best of Times
This early in the Year of the Metal Rat—2020—the people’s sense
of hope and optimism expected every new year has been spoiled by several
unexpected serious man-made and nature-induced calamities.
Be that as
it may, let’s start with the positive ones....
Pinoys: Smugglers of the Faith
Barely three
days from now the aging “Year of the Pig”
(YOP) would have a good or bad exit worldwide depending on what side of destiny
or fate a particular country and its citizens, like ours, have had in their existence
in a span of...
Disaster preparedness
President Rodrigo Duterte expressed his praises to all the
Local Government Units (LGU) of the Bicol Region for the extra-ordinary effort
by providing pre-emptive measures in order to minimize the effect of the recent
typhoon in the region.
Upon hearing the power...
Quo Vadis EBMC?
There was a time when the populace of this island
relatively look with pride the Eastern Bicol Medical Center (EBMC) as a
bedrock—a center---of health and wellness.
Apparently,
however, in the last two decades or so, its services has deteriorated...
It’s time to shine
ARE
they ready for me? Vice President Leni Robredo posed the question to
Cabinet members after announcing on Wednesday that she has accepted—after days
of publicly expressing extreme caution—the offer of President Duterte to become
his anti-illegal drugs czar.
Robredo
said she plans to...
BP @ 13: ALIVE & KICKING IN RED COLOR
Last
October 24 we celebrated our 13th BP Foundation Anniversary along
with the fiesta celebrations in
Barangays Cavinitan and Gogon in honor of Patron St. Raphael.
To the
management and staff, the red color we chose in our souvenir t-shirts...