By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Senator Joker Arroyo once described the Aquino government as the equivalent of a college student council. He was wrong. It’s more like a high school student council, and not only because at its core is the barkada system. It’s also because of its total cluelessness about the…
Day: March 12, 2013
Pay of 230 plus QC village employees withheld
“If the council has a conflict among themselves, why must the employees suffer?”
UP student’s mom-in-law recounts last time she saw Sherlyn Cadapan
Adoracion Paulino, mother-in-law of missing UP student Sherlyn Cadapan, had a lot of questions when Sherlyn suddenly appeared in her house, being guarded by three women and two men, but Sherlyn did not answer her queries.
Cacique diplomacy
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Why is it taking forever for Malacanang to state whether it acknowledges the official claim of the Philippines to Sabah and will pursue it with vigor or will drop it like a hot potato? Many are beginning to surmise that the Aquino regime is not all convinced that the…
Hugo Chavez fulfilled his vow to Venezuela’s poor
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star For the second time — two centuries apart — the people of Venezuela and of other Latin American states mourn the passing away of a great revolutionary leader. The first time was when Simon Bolivar, leader of the South/Latin American nations’ fight for liberation…