Extreme Northern
Luzon and Mindanao will have mostly cloudy skies
with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.
The rest of the country will be partly cloudy to
at times cloudy with isolated rainshowers or
thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
President Gloria
Arroyo (left) buckles down to work even on Easter in
Baguio City, as her husband, lawyer Jose Miguel Arroyo,
looks on. The Arroyo government assures the public there
is sufficient food supply, even as some lawmakers are
worried about a looming rice crisis. Malacañang Photo
Govt in denial about ‘crisis’
Senator Loren Legarda warned Sunday of social
unrest and political instability if the price of rice, now on a
34-year high, continues to surge.
The Finance department plans to increase
tax-expenditure subsidy given to the National Food Authority to
preempt a rice shortage—even as the Trade secretary insists there
is no food crisis.
Rep. Padilla noted that the Appeals Court stopped
Judge Austria from enforcing questionable decision
A veteran lawmaker over the weekend urged a
controversial Batangas City Regional Trial Court judge to inhibit
herself from the rehabilitation case of Steel Corporation of the
Philippines (SCP) even as he noted that the Court of Appeals has
already stopped the judge from enforcing a management committee to
act on the complaints of the steel company.
THE Philippines may resume issuing guarantees
for priority government infrastructure and social projects that the
private sector would pursue using foreign donor aid.
NEW ORLEANS: David West scored 37 points and sparked a
fourth-quarter rally to lift the Hornets past the National
Basketball Association-leading Boston Celtics 113-106 here Saturday.
Last March 4, the Diliman, Quezon City campus of the University of
the Philippines held its annual student council elections. Five of
its 25 colleges and institutes computerized their polls.
THEY come in the wee hours of the morning, without ample warning, as
we’re in our homes fast asleep after a long week at work. We’re
not talking about thieves in the night, but they might as well be,
considering how much they take away from our hard-earned incomes.
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s president-elect Ma Ying-jeou said Sunday he
wanted a “mutual non-denial” agreement with China and
vowed to work to lay the groundwork for a century of peace and
prosperity.
Vivid summer dreams
Jerry Morada and Mario Parial exhibit at Galerie
Joaquin
Summer brings about the most intense colors. In
a season mad with festivals, fruits ripen and flowers bloom to
riotous colors under the harsh tropical glare. The same sunlight
that gave Amorsolo’s bucolic paintings their white-hot edge now
colors our fever dreams. Haunting images take on the theatrical
hues. Jungian symbols acquire a pulsating iridescence. The summer
even colors the season’s paintings.
