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Shades of nepotism
by Aven Piramide - December 19, 2024 - 12:00am
A gentleman who is known to me to be a rabid supporter of “dismissed” Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, shared with me a stinging yet sensible podcast of Mr. Byron Garcia.
More than diplomatic protest
by Aven Piramide - December 12, 2024 - 12:00am
Our country’s Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that it has filed a diplomatic protest against the People’s Republic of China (I mean Communist China, with emphasis on Communist as a god...
Political dynasties more vice than virtue
by Aven Piramide - December 8, 2024 - 12:00am
I remember that a Senate committee led by Senator Leticia Shahani conducted a study on Filipino culture.
Handcuff Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio
by Aven Piramide - December 1, 2024 - 12:00am
I did not know the English writer and politician William Congreve, neither have I come across any of his works until I saw the scowling face of an otherwise beautiful Philippine Vice President Sara
Discard political dynasties
by Aven Piramide - November 28, 2024 - 12:00am
It is very difficult to engage in a running debate even over a common topic if you are not prepared with your array of sound arguments.
Just say no to political dynasties
by Aven Piramide - November 24, 2024 - 12:00am
I do not tire quoting the eminent Dr. Vicente Sinco, former president of the University of the Philippines, in his characterization of the Declaration of State Principles found in Article II of our Constitution as...
PPG or East-West PAM highway?
by Aven Piramide - November 21, 2024 - 12:00am
While the midterm election is still about 6 months away, Governor Gwendolyn F. Garcia appears to be leading the race.
How pathetic we have become
by Aven Piramide - November 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Among the fundamental principles of a republican form of government is the holding of election. Those who lead the government are chosen by the people composing the body politic.
In continued search for senators
by Aven Piramide - November 14, 2024 - 12:00am
Out of the dizzying flux of social media platforms, two terms have evolved - bloggers and influencers.
Harlem-like legislative exhibition
by Aven Piramide - November 10, 2024 - 12:00am
There was a Cebuano senator who became known as the author of the Press Freedom Law. Senator Vicente Yap Sotto wrote Republic Act No. 53 in 1946. Actually it is one among the shortest laws I have read containing,...
A pitch for Heidi Mendoza
by Aven Piramide - November 7, 2024 - 12:00am
During those times when we, old disc jockeys, still played vinyl records in our radio programs, we adopted an unusual term - “re-groove.” We meant the point when the music would sound repeating a lyrical...
Why the Commission on Human Rights failed
by Aven Piramide - October 31, 2024 - 12:00am
Proclamation No. 1081, was promulgated more than fifty years ago. It became notoriously known as the Martial Law declaration of former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos.
A Senator De La Rosa joke
by Aven Piramide - October 20, 2024 - 12:00am
In public speaking, as it is even in press conferences, a communicator holds his audience better if he weaves jokes in his exposition.
Mayor Garcia can make our city food sufficient
by Aven Piramide - October 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Two communist countries isolated themselves fora considerably long period of time.
My initial list of whom not to vote as senator
by Aven Piramide - October 13, 2024 - 12:00am
There were two intellectuals who lived significant lives about 2,000 years apart from each other.
Weaponizing an absurd interpretation of nepotism
by Aven Piramide - October 10, 2024 - 12:00am
If according to a Chinese proverb a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, I like to imagine that to understand the perceived political misfortune of “dismissed” Cebu City Mayor Michael...
Watching for a surge favoring the “dejado”
by Aven Piramide - October 6, 2024 - 12:00am
Sabong competes with basketball as our national pastime.
The emerging fiefdoms
by Aven Piramide - October 3, 2024 - 12:00am
Khaled Elgindy wrote in the Foreign Affairs last August 20, 2024 that “As Israel’s current war in Gaza has unfolded, Abbas has remained impotent and irrelevant, and even his fiefdom in the West Bank has...
Whose COCs I will favor?
by Aven Piramide - September 29, 2024 - 12:00am
The other day, Friday, I visited my very small property in the mountain barangay of Paril, this city.
If Tommy “O” decides to run for mayor
by Aven Piramide - September 26, 2024 - 12:00am
In the 2022 Presidential Elections, here in Cebu City, Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr., obtained 325,000 votes.
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