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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:20:16 +0000

    WHEN the water concession­aire reminds you of your late payment and you don’t take heed instantly, it’s “Putol!” – they cut off the service immediately. Ergo, shouldn’t we expect them to com­pensate us, ahora mismo, after they left us high and dry with no water for days, with no end in sight? Those […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:10:26 +0000

  WE could learn a few things from Sacramento, capital of California, USA, which went through a drought for sev­en years but “we were never without water, not for a single day.” A long-time resident assures me the winter just gone pulled Sac out of the drought, offi­cially, so they’re 100 percent normal and expecting […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:10:38 +0000

  MY maid asked in her best trau­matized voice of experience, “Are they playing a trick on us?” She meant, how was Manila No Water able to release torrents of water abruptly into our homes after seven days of bone-crunching “water service interruption”? At Tuesday’s hearing, Senator Grace Poe asked the same question but she […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:20:04 +0000

  A MAN of few words, Alfredo Lim is all prepped and eager to ride once again, protect you like Dirty Harry and serve you like City Hall is supposed to. Mayor Lim, in my book alias Lim Kuan Yew until the passing into history of Lee Kuan Yew, the great Singaporean states­man, is back […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:15:09 +0000

  WHAT good would a state of calamity do in address­ing the all-day all-night water cut-off? Not all the money in the world can create living water. Advice to MWSS who didn’t see it coming and Manila No-Water hiding behind “operational ad­justments”: Go jump in the lake, the drier the better! They call it a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:00:25 +0000

  HE’S earned a Ph.D. in garbageology, having been a garbage collector for 18 years, starting at the tender age of 10 when he pushed a sluggish pushcart loaded with trash without counting the hours and the days. Twenty-four years later in 2017 he was appointed chairman of National Rail­ways Corp. with a monthly salary […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:30:33 +0000

  WE need an executive order abolishing Fire Prevention Month, the fieriest month. Temperatures are rising, the land is parched and killing crops, the dams are thirsty. Farmers are at their wit’s end – where to get wa­ter freely, how to save what they have planted? The worst place to be now is the Department […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:20:44 +0000

  AN ex-cop first took notice of Sara Duterte, her father’s daughter, as the one to watch, the next star to shine above the crest­ing wave of new leaders. Since then, I’ve been keeping my eyes on the Mayor and the man who said those words, Senator Ping Lacson. Stumping for her Hugpong can­didates whom […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:10:53 +0000

  IN the debate over the necessity of debates between and among senatorial candidates, a reelection­ist or former government official is presumed to be at a disadvantage while his newcomer challenger enjoys the benefit of the doubt. A challenger has lots of points to pick on, a reelectionist can only defend his record, hardly ever […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:10:16 +0000

  NOTHING less than a miracle that our bishops and priests have been behaving these many years. A clean slate! On the other hand, there’s Cardinal Tagle telling the world that “cultural taboos” have kept victims from coming forward to denounce the wolves in holy robes who have sexually abused them. Would we and the […]