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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:20:51 +0000

  IN many democratic countries around the world, debate is not just an academic platform in discussing crucial issues of public interest. Even in electoral exercises, it has become a tool in measur­ing a candidate’s depth of knowledge of issues and a reflection of the skill of a person on how to deliber­ate on the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:20:16 +0000

  THE House of Represen­tatives and the Senate have both approved their respective bills seeking to invigorate and further pro­mote our country’s arts and culture. They did so before they went on recess for the upcoming mid-term elec­tions next May. The House measure, titled the “Philippine National Performing Arts Companies Act” (HB 7785) provides the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:30:51 +0000

  PHILIPPINE elections have always been pejoratively compared to circuses. With the pomp and glamor that candi­dates bring with them when they file their cer­tificates of candidacy, it is hardly expected they would turn their festive celebration into violent bitter confrontations and vicious mudslinging just weeks later. More alarming yet is the way observers, view […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:20:58 +0000

    THE election campaign is now on. Expectedly, candidates will again un­leash what they have in their arsenals to win votes – including CASH, political gimmickry, and pompous promises. Hopefully, Filipino voters will be more discerning this time and go beyond mere name recall, popularity and/or notoriety, overly ambitious but short-sight­ed agenda promises and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:20:15 +0000

    THE recent Jolo bomb­ings, particularly the Mt. Carmel Church ep­isode, has once again underscored the fragile peace that exists in Mind­anao and vulnerability of churches to attacks. While the motive behind the tragedy, which cost twenty-two lives, was not religious in nature and had nothing to do with the Bangsamoro Organic Law, the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:30:10 +0000

    OUR Muslim brothers have spoken. A great majority of them resound­ing ratified the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) in its Jan. 21 initial plebiscite. The BOL seeks to establish the new Bangsamoro Au­tonomous Region in Mus­lim Mindanao (BARMM) to replace the obviously failed Autonomous Region in Mus­lim Mindanao (ARMM). Even Christians in pre­dominantly Muslim-domi­nated […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:30:58 +0000

    THE recent suggestion by American environ­mentalist Michael Shellen­berger, a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment” award-winning author, for the Philippines to shift to nuclear energy to generate electricity deserves serious consideration. Power demand continues to soar more rapidly than supply due to population growth and accelerating economic development. Electricity rates also remain astronomical […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:20:53 +0000

    IT’S now 2019. The recent self-immola­tion by a Tunisian photo journalist who burned himself to death to high­light his “government neglect,” brings to the fore once again the trag­ic plight the press faces in making the pursuit of the media profession productive. Such unsettling de­velopment echoes also the plight of country­side Filipino journalists […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:29:40 +0000

  THE Ati-Atihan festival of Kalibo, Aklan held January every year, has surely retained its religious fervor and cultural color. Ati-Atihan Festival director Albert Menez of the Kalibo Sto. Niño Ati-Atihan Founda­tion, Inc. (KASAFI) has assured their 2019 edition will be best, stressing Ati-Atihan, as a testimony of faith and culture, is uniquely apart from […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 17:00:38 +0000

    MERRY Christmas and a truly more prosperous New Year!!! Christmas and New Year generally bring with them the message of joy, peace, love, and hope for better times. Considering the in­flation spikes we have had in the last few months, the message becomes even more appealing. Interestingly, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda and Sen. […]