The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
The pale brass yellow sheen of iron pyrite has earned it the colloquial monicker “fool’s gold” and for the overly reckless miner wildly screaming “Thar’s gold in them hills!”, its discovery could very well have led to premature claims more deservingly a tall tale than the genuine thing.
Points of View & Perspectives
April, 2017
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23 April
Is government still concerned with the safety of commuters?
Much have been said about the sad state of our public utility buses and the dangers they pose to the lives of the riding public. However, it appears government is not doing anything to ensure the safety of commuters.
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23 April
Alveoli: Endings in our bodies
I embraced my father’s death from lung cancer related to smoking with what could have been to relatives an inspiring acceptance, instead of my turning into a firebrand against the habit.
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2 April
A polluter’s Potemkin propaganda
Among environmentalists, it’s defined as greenwashing. In the energy sector, greenwashing is when polluters refer to their circulating fluidized bed (CFB) coal-fired plants as clean coal technology. That is a lie. It is by no means clean. It is just not as dirty as the toxic and deadlier flat bed pulverized coal-fired plants. Less deadly however does not mean it …
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2 April
Will Congress investigate its own members?
A few months back, Solicitor-General Jose Calida filed a manifestation with the Court of Appeals recommending the acquittal of alleged pork barrel scam architect Jeanette Lim-Napoles for the crime of serious illegal detention of her erstwhile trusted aide and whistleblower Benhur Luy.
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2 April
Invisible wounds
She had turned into a stranger, altered beyond recognition. If not for her eyes that still flashed from a pale violet to purple when she fumed, I would have had no way of knowing who it was that answered to her name—she writhed in constant pain, moaned and sniffled quite often.
March, 2017
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26 March
Killing Edsa
Last month, rather than grace the annual celebrations of the 1986 Edsa Revolution many endearingly call “People Power,” President Rodrigo R. Duterte chose instead to remain in Davao City at the far end of the archipelago. The distance from Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) alone was a brazenly graphic and deafening shout-out that declared in no uncertain terms what he …
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26 March
I am a Filipino—Sen. Alan Cayetano
We received an email from the office of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano regarding a recent opinion piece published in the online version of a major newspaper questioning his citizenship.
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26 March
Which orphan do you know?
In a baby-marsupial way, the little boy clung to his grandmother, when presented to my mother, then a grade school teacher, midway in the school year—not only in hopes he could continue schooling but also to regain his speech that he suddenly lost, as the elderly woman implored.
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19 March
The jeepney modernization lie
This discussion is less about the government’s proposed jeepney modernization program or even about jeepneys than it is about another brazen lie foisted on the public. The danger about such constant afflictions where authorities are often caught in obvious falsehoods is in its numbing and cauterizing effect. The Greek story-teller Aesop would have entitled it “The Boy who cried Wolf” …