Bacolod/Negros magic

May 24,2013 12:54 AM

BACOLOD City and Negros Occidental deserve to be congratulated for a job well done in developing its information technology and business process management (IT-BPM).

The Department of Science and Technology and Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (iBPAP) cited Bacolod and Negros Occidental for sustaining the growth of its IT-BPM industry in the past three to four years. Read more...

Just use condoms

May 24,2013 12:52 AM

By: Modesto Sa-onoy

THE INCIDENCE of AIDS in the Philippines has increased beyond a thousand and the Department of Health has issued a warning of the rapid rise in this disease that so far has defied any medical cure.

The Philippines had thus entered into the realm of countries that is the scourge of the 20^th and into the 21^st century without any relief in sight. In fact, Read more...

What’s in a name?

May 24,2013 12:50 AM

By: Henrylito D. Tacio

MY PARENTS gave me the name “Henry” after watching the movie “King Henry V,” Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play.  But since the name was too short, so my mother suggested of adding the name, “Lito” (which means “little” in Spanish).  That’s why I am the only person in the world with the name “Henrylito” as it is a combination of English and Spanish names.

The parents and the moral education

May 24,2013 12:48 AM

By: Bonnie B. Barrientos

(The author is a Teacher III of Rizal Elementary School in Pontevedra, Capiz)

“THINK THAT every day is your last; the time to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise”

This adage reminds us that everything we do everyday should be primarily for the sake of our family. This resembles our responsibility to live right and do good deeds before the sunset of our life. Read more...

Ai Ai, Nancy, Jinky, Grace, Kris next contenders for president?

May 24,2013 12:46 AM

By: Alex P. Vidal

"CLEVER AND attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men." – George Bernard Shaw

Comedian Ai Ai De las Alas would have dislodged Grace Poe in the No. 1 spot had she ran for the senate and her marital troubles started to go viral in Youtube before the May 13 midterm elections. Read more...