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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:36:56 +0000

  WE could welcome the Unit­ed Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding team “into our kitchen, dining room, living room, but not the bedroom.” Filipino hospitality to the core! Words spoken by former ambas­sador to the United Nations Lauro Baja, in the language of diplomats to cool down tempers without losing our heads over Iceland’s proposal […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:36:48 +0000

  IN the middle of a meeting, the irrepressible Ms. HP broke the news that the houses in a gated vil­lage south of the Pasig were now going for P200 million to P300 mil­lion each, up from P45-50 million. The retired judge in the room spoke up, “Inflation?” The lawyer said, “In a village where […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:02:55 +0000

  PGH is renovating – finally! – their ER. Until the work is completed in February 2020, their MDs ask the public to please un­derstand that the lack of space and facilities means patients will need to seek medical assistance elsewhere. If 20 patients used to be comfortably accommodated at a time, the doctors and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:27:24 +0000

  A FEW things to learn from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook, rattled and rolled South­ern California last Friday (Saturday in Manila), courtesy of one of the world’s most famous seismologists, Dr. Lucy Jones, during a press brief­ing that was intercut with CNN live reports. (No, it’s not related to the Big One of […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:05:51 +0000

  JUST because no one’s talk­ing about water service in­terruptions anymore, does it mean the problem has trickled away? Having been so traumatized and trained to expect minimum water service in the last four months, I‘m still not sold to the idea that things will normalize 100 percent, even with three or 13 more storms […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:01:27 +0000

  JUST as we expected, and just as those experts in MWSS and NWRB knew, it wasn’t their genius on the job that gave us rain, and with rain, water to wet our thirsty reservoirs. There’s not enough yet to pull up the water level in Angat, La Mesa, Ipo, and Binga, but let’s be […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:49:26 +0000

  IF Congressman Mikee Rome­ro is as good as his word, he should have filed yesterday, first day for the submission of bills, his proposal for an “Eddie Garcia law,” or the Actors Occupational Safety and Health Standard Law. The stars in the sky are on a straight line for such a bill be­coming law. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:43:42 +0000

  BIBETH Orteza Siguion-Reyna complained that when she got her bill for water service interrup­tion, it was P7,000, with a rebate for P150, the cheapskates! A BPI banker didn’t know if she should cry for joy or in shame af­ter she was billed P1,500 (in nor­mal times, it was P300), followed by another bill showing […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:10:18 +0000

  FROM a diplomatic/maritime issue, a Chinese vessel hitting one of our fishing boats has become an emotional issue. And why not? Even the usually unemotional have found ways to let off steam and let it go, steamily. Nineteen fishermen plus three crewmen lost their boat and three tons of lapu-lapu, worth half a million […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:20:41 +0000

  “SO many beautiful girls, so lit­tle time” was the oft-repeated lamentation of a former boss of mine. Known for his fine taste in fashion and women, he had a forgiv­ing wife whose revenge was taking yearly trips to Switzerland for reju­venation treatments that cost him a leg and an arm. What would he have […]