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Thursday, October 05, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Confusion on October 29
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It looks like we are facing massive confusion on October 29, the day
we are scheduled to elect our barangay officials and the officers of
the Sangguniang Kabataan.
The House has voted to postpone the elections to
May 11, 2008, reportedly for lack of funds and preparations. The
last presidential and local elections had bled party and personal
coffers dry, congressmen said.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Bring ZTE-NBN issue
to court
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Cell-phone owners are being bombarded with text messages from
opposing camps in the ZTE-NBN controversy. Most of the messages are
blatant propaganda that are only worth deleting.
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HEADS UP
By Joel P.
Palacios
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The manager is out
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It may be necessary to translate to English, Chinese and other major
languages the words “may 200 ka dito.”
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T.G.I.F
By Rene Saguisag
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Mike Arroyo
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How can I point a finger and say ‘back off’ to someone I don’t
even know,” Mike Arroyo rhetorically asked the media on Tuesday.
“Put yourself in my position. Can you tell someone right off na
first time n’yo mag-meet’ and say ‘back off, back off’? You
do not say that.”
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Where it is easy to
do business
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In my column yesterday, I said it is getting more difficult to do
business in the Philippines, primarily because of the increasing red
tape and time-consuming, if not costly, procedures.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Public space for art
and history
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Our public spaces have been over-taken by rampaging and distasteful
commercialism in the form of billboards, posters, streamers, all
bearing the consumerism that seems to have covered a multitude of
good things...
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In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie
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THE President recently ordered the suspension of
the scandal-ridden national broadband network (NBN) deal with the
ZTE Corp. of China. She likewise directed that the Cyber-Education
Project (CEP) of the department of Education,
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LETTER
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No mafia at DOJ
I AM respectfully bringing to your attention
some clarifications I would like to make on an article that came out
in your newspaper regarding the Department of Justice.
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