special report

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:15:30 +0000

  THIS should have been started, a long time ago. A grape-vine commentary by Archbishop Jose Palma on the “First Lay Collaborators Diocesan Conference on Deliverance and Exorcism” for Cebu held last February 24-28. An offshoot of the creation of the Archdiocese of Cebu Exorcism Office (ACEO), the theme of said activity is based on […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:00:11 +0000

  ROUGHLY 75 years after WWII, how did Japan rise from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with an American sponsored (Douglas MacArthur) Constitution, as one of the wealthiest economies in the world? Long dissertation required, however, the short of it may be summarized in the cardinal question government posed the Japanese people. “With determinate […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:00:39 +0000

  IN a Tempo column (2 decades ago), I expressed future concern over Cebu City experiencing a build-up in trash, flooding, deteriorating air quality, pollution, worsening traffic, and run-away urban development. The idyllic soul of Cebu fading, eventually surrendering its bucolic spine to a replicated capital of congested malls, condominiums, and high rises as modality […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:00:16 +0000

  IF the incumbency of President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” is to be point of reckoning, the 1972 Dangerous Drug’s Act, RA 6425, principally authored by my late father, Cebu Senator Rene Espina (Senate version was adopted by the Lower House), was visionary. Foretelling by 44 years, the necessity to pass a law addressing […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:15:53 +0000

  A FEW weeks after the passage of the law on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), and thereafter, the flurried appointments for the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) members, I managed to get in touch with recognized/true-blue MNLF (Moro National Liberation Front) personalities to discuss their next move? In conversation with names held […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:15:51 +0000

  TWO weeks passing, the Philippine Army 1901st Ready Reserve Infantry Brigade, Cebu City Vice Mayor Mike Rama, shoulder to shoulder with BPO companies e.g. Qualfon, launched the ‘Tabang Cotabato’ (Help Cotabato) project. Although the City government had extended P10M pesos of financial help to stricken areas in Mindanao, said group proceeded with the outreach […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:16:05 +0000

Part 1 JANUARY 18, 1871 Germany transformed into a nation state when 39 states (except Austria and Switzerland) unified into the Prussian dominated German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France. These were German speaking states in Central Europe. The United States of America was founded in July 4, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:31:20 +0000

  SHEN Yung captured the great dilemma applicable to communist governments faced with the inevitable peril of loosening ideological restrictions on the “means of production”, permitting private, albeit, limited enterprise and capitalism. So unlike traditional applications of totalitarian collectivism, as the cornerstone of socialism. Regimented welfare of the so-called masses arrayed against personal good and […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:10:48 +0000

  “AN ordinary maritime traffic accident. If the relevant reports are true, regardless of the country from which the perpetrators came from, their behavior should be condemned”, Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesman Geng Shuang. Initial response to statements made by F/B Gemvil 1 Skipper Junel Insigne, “Umikot muna sila, binalikan kami sinindi yun maraming ilaw, nung […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:05:24 +0000

  CURRENT cacophony of voices headed by militant leanings, cites the ‘Party-list System’ as subjected to grave abuse by political-dynasties, the well-to-do, and sectors accredited by Comelec to represent interests not in the ambit of the “under-privileged and under-represented”. We, however, need to feed on past events to comprehend distortions in the present state of […]