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Another afterthought on COVID-19

IT HAS been three weeks since President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a one-month “community quarantine,” initially in Metro Manila and eventually spreading out nationwide in collaboration with the...

When PECO ‘fakes’ news…

WHAT has the disenfranchised Panay Electric Co. (PECO) to gain from weaving “fake news” aimed at besmirching the reputation of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE...

Coping with COVID-19 pandemic

MERELY reviewing my previous articles about the coronavirus pandemic has made me stressful. I must have stressed my readers even more. So now I must strive...

Fighting an unseen enemy

IMAGINE a blind swordsman brandishing his sword against an unseen enemy. That’s us facing an unseen, microscopic enemy now universally known as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).  Hear...

Life after coronavirus

ARE WE on the right track as far as surviving the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is concerned? Now in our second week of the President-imposed “community quarantine”...

When one man decides

HAS President Rodrigo Duterte really asked for emergency powers that would allow him to take over privately-owned public utilities, hospitals and the media, among other businesses? No,...

Power sustainability essential

THE timely entry of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has kept Iloilo City energized “24/7” despite the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).  Thanks...

Where there’s no drug for COVID-19

THE lockdowns going on in the world today are aimed at containing the spread of the previously unknown coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Since it has no cure...

Closing in on coronavirus

IT REMAINS to be seen how “community quarantine” (a euphemism for lockdown) would arrest coronavirus. But would it not pale in comparison to a more harmful...

Magellan and Lapu-Lapu revisited

TOMORROW, we will be commemorating the 499th anniversary of the “discovery” of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan on March 16, 1521.             Figuratively and literally, Magellan and his men...