PEOPLE POWWOW: Anti-depression drugs could not have saved Robbin Williams
By HERBERTÂ VEGO
THE other day, CNN interviewed friends and fellow actors of the late Hollywood comedian Robbin Williams. All of them gasped in disbelief that...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Why disabled seamen should demand, not wait, for disability benefits
By HERBERT VEGO
THIS corner has met a number of seamen who have no choice but âabandonâ ship without finishing their contract term due to...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Imagine we were a Chinese territory
By HERBERT VEGO
ONE of the newspaper clippings I recently fished out of my reference folder is a translation of a commentary by He Jia,...
PEOPLE POWWOW: The dying Philippine movie industry
BY HERBERT VEGO
AS an entertainment reporter in Manila in the 1970s, I remember the stiff competition that Filipino movies were giving their Hollywood counterparts.
For...
PEOPLE POWWOW: What a party-list for seafarers should do
By HERBERT VEGO
WE have received text messages asking: Is the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) a party-list representation? We are not surprised by...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Recalling the â8-11â Guimaras oil spill
By HERBERT VEGO
WHEN my friend Noel Torres told me the other day that Mayor Emmanuel Galila of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras had written a letter...
PEOPLE POWWOW: A lesson from Benjamin Franklin
By HERBERT VEGO
ANYBODY who has seen a hundred-dollar bill knows how he looked like in his time. Itâs where the portrait of Ben Franklin...
PEOPLE POWWOW: 40 years of âlawyeringâ for overseas Filipino seamen
By HERBERT VEGO
WHY has this column repeatedly played up labor cases handled by the Free Legal Assistance for Seafarers (FLAS) under maritime lawyer Pedro...
PEOPLE POWWOW: MIWD chair optimistic butâŠ
By HERBERT VEGO
OUR good friend Dr. Danilo Encarnacion, chairman of the board of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), waxed optimistic the other day...
PEOPLE POWWOW: More on the most expensive swimming pool
By HERBERT VEGO
YOU must have noted that in his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) the other day, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III...