Northern and
Central Luzon will experience mostly cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have
partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in
the afternoon or evening.
Bishops and church groups take “dirty-money”
donations
Philippines is gambling lords’ Eden
The Philippines has become the gambling lords’
paradise. And the richest of these lords, albeit legal and
government-owned, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor),
is about to turn the most beautiful part of Metro Manila into the
Las Vegas of the Orient.
Unlike puritanical Protestant Christian sects that view games of
chance almost as something equal to embracing Satan, the Roman
Catholic Church’s doctrine on the subject is as tolerant as her
doctrine on everything in this world that only becomes evil when
used for evil ends.
Authorities say passengers lack required
clearances
MORE than 850 passengers at the
Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) in Pampanga were
barred from leaving the country on suspicion of being “tourist
workers,” the Bureau of Immigration said on Saturday.
Despite floods, power outages and a rash of violent
incidents in Mindanao, an information campaign targeting voters in
the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is in full-swing,
the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Saturday.
CEBU CITY: University
of Visayas (UV) waxed hot in the second half to beat Southwestern
University (SWU) 89-69 Friday night and forge a titular showdown
with Huaquiao University of China in the 6th Asian University
Basketball Championship at the Cebu Coliseum.
ABOARD THE POPE’S PLANE: Pope Benedict XVI said
Saturday he will use his visit to Australia to apologize for sexual
abuse by priests and how the Church can “prevent, heal and
reconcile.”
Some say that suburbia is the way to go. They choose to give up the
convenience of living in the city because suburbia’s sense of calm
makes it easier for families to make peace with a place and secure a
sense of safety in their homes. Parents think about the benefits of
open space, nature and quiet streets where it is safe and ideal to
teach kids how to ride a bike.
Migrante, a militant federation of overseas
Filipino workers (OFWs) groups, is asking the Arroyo administration
to call for a discussion of the controversial sponsorship system for
Gulf States-based OFWs, among many other labor migration issues,
during the 2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development that will
be held in Manila in October.
More tidings of hope came from the military on Friday.
This was in the form of a front-page Inquirer report that the young
officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reject the
“Palparan solution.”
TO marketing expert Jinggay Gallardo, teaching is all about giving
back and helping people become better citizens. To businessman Rudy
Ang, being a teacher means caring for young people enough to make
them care for their own future.
Given her beauty and mystical aura, it’s so
easy to convince one’s self that Chin-Chin Gutierrez is Maria
Makiling incarnate, the fabled goddess of the Luzon mountain range.
Her attributes are what we imagine a diwata would possess. No wonder
that when she talks about protecting the environment, everybody
hushes and listens.
