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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:07:12 +0000

    WHEREVER those drugs worth P6 billion-plus have landed, we’re seeing bits and pieces of them being seized in daily raids and apprehensions north and south of the islands. In so-called gated communities where security guards do not al­low just anyone to go past their scrutiny, the merchants of sui­cide in small doses have […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:10:45 +0000

    “COWARDS!” the man mut­tered under his breath, though it would’ve been well with­in his rights to shout the word out loud. Cowards, indeed, they who so bravely wave the banner of ter­rorism. But that’s what terrorists do. They have changed the rules of warfare by not following any; they are as ruthless as […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:11:32 +0000

  VOTER education: Does it teach you everything but how to choose your candidate wisely? Then again, wisdom is subjec­tive. Surely, if I am to be wise I would have to be nice to myself first. Remember what Cardinal Sin told voters who were torn between being wise and nice? He said, “Ac­cept their money […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:30:29 +0000

  MOCK elections as a dress rehearsal or to smoke out the bugs in the polling system were held Jan. 19 in 60 polling places. The exercise was concluded to the satisfaction of Comelec as the turnout was thin and the proceedings unfolded in a sober, calm fashion. Mock the elections come May 13, if […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:20:53 +0000

    WHY are some, or many, people scared of nuclear power? Mostly because they think it means a powerful bomb that when it ex­plodes spells the end of life, if not of the world. Michael Shellenberger, a visiting environmentalist who was a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” hopes to convince President Duterte to […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:20:05 +0000

    WOMEN accumulate more clothes than they will fit into or need in a lifetime. Men hoard gad­gets, devices, and tools until there’s no space left in the garage for their car. Children outgrow their toys but keep getting new ones. Old people have too many memories, therefore mementos, that will surely outlive them. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:30:15 +0000

  PRESIDENT Duterte on his frustra­tions with the Commission on Audit: “Ihulog sa hagdan.” Push them down the stairs. COA Commissioner’s advice to audi­tors: “Avoid the stairs.” Presidential Spokesman Sal Panelo at­tributed Mr. Duterte’s threat to his usu­al hyperbolic language, a result of the agonizingly meticulous care with which state auditors study every peso and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:20:11 +0000

    SHE belongs to the universe now, but she is ours first, with Australia also claiming her as their own. Catriona Gray, Miss Universe 2019, can’t help it. She’s a child of a third culture. Her mother Filipino, her father Scottish. With blood of the Philippines and Scot­land flowing in her veins, she was […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:10:08 +0000

    OUR “heirloom” Christmas orna­ments packed away, suddenly the living room looks so empty, al­most as bare as the calendar on the wall. (The year 2018 came and went, and still no win for Jess Arranza in his fight to save Uniwide owner Jim­my Gow from his money managers, whose “betrayal” cost him a […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:35:24 +0000

    GENDER equality demands that girls be acknowledged as bul­lies, too. Their bullying can be just as cruel, in the form of verbal-psy­chological abuse. I’ve seen girls bullying girls and heard stories of such incidents hap­pening in “exclusive” schools where the rule is to be prim and proper, most of the time anyway. But […]