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“Our job is not just to be a service provider. it is also my job to be an economic manager. We have to create an environment that is conducive to economic growth and development so that business and industries in our province can flourish. Kung hindi tayo kikilos, sino ang …

For those who will be traveling out of town on a motor vehicle this summer, the PNP advises drivers to make sure that the vehicle to be used is in good running condition. Before leaving, check the vehicle’s ‘Blowbag’ — B-batteries, L-lights, O-oil, W-water, B-brakes, A-air, and G-gas. Also, always …

Every piece of plastic ever produced, since it came on the scene in the 1950s, is still with us today. And it isn’t going anywhere. How abreast are we about what’s happening around the globe? Recently, as I search for related articles for a certain study, I came accross this …

There are numbers of things that we know about ourselves. There are also some secrets about the real us that we would like to be kept unknown to everyone. There are some things about us that we discovered because of other people. And probably a large chunk of our true …

  At his best, he showers me with a myriad of things I call “favorites”, blurts out an oddly humorous punch line and tells me hilarious stories about his escapades. At his worst, he’s nothing short of becoming an ogre— his sneering voice and alarming appearance never fail to give …

  “Only God has the right to take away one’s life and determine the means by which death will take place.” An intense analysis of this aphorism brought me to one sensible conclusion contrary to the recently proposed Consolidated Reproductive Health Bill— the use of contraceptives is no different from …

I was hit by a special brand of panic reserved for freshmen. Helplessness— that was how they labeled it. Appropriately termed, actually, because it applies to a considerable number of freshmen students. The word used to be my companion, by the way. That was three years ago— my freshman year, …

I was never an environmentalist. I never advocated those clean and green projects some concerned folks would reiterate at seminars time and again. Issues of pollution just made me tired. Nitrogen loading reports didn’t ring a bell. Distress about biomass burning didn’t stop me from absorbing every detail of an …