Anarchy in government - II

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | January 22, 2011 - 12:00am

The local government units (LGU) consisting of the provinces, cities, municipalities or towns, and the barangays, just like the national government, are likewise in the worsening grips of anarchy as some karma or...

Freeman Opinion

Forgetting the greater good

By CTALK | By Cito Beltran | January 5, 2011 - 12:00am

Imagine living in a barangay where you need two sets of stickers just to cross a street?

The carabao is not Pinoy

December 12, 2010 - 12:00am

The Philippine national animal, the hardy, plodding carabao isn’t endemic to the country but descended from swamp buffaloes in China, a recent study conducted by scientists from the Philippine Carabao Center...

The barangay political craze

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | October 23, 2010 - 12:00am

Like certain diseases with several strains nowadays, politics in the Philippines also breeds quirky strains and changes over a long time that spread like crazy.

Freeman Opinion

Rural barangays as sacrificial lambs - II

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | July 27, 2010 - 12:00am

Even before writing these pieces on the sad plight of the poor barangay that also forms as basic unit or branch of the entire government structure, one has long been greatly disturbed by this state policy resulting...

Freeman Opinion

Rural barangays as sacrificial lambs - I

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | July 24, 2010 - 12:00am

Any lowly man on the street or any simple farmer knows that the barrio or barangay serves as the basic political unit of government. Many have, and listen to, transistor radios and watch tv sets of neighbors.

Freeman Opinion

Five other buses grounded: Charges filed vs operator, driver

By Rene U. Borromeo | July 6, 2010 - 12:00am

Charges of reckless imprudence resulting to multiple homicide and physical injuries were filed yesterday against the driver and operator of the bus that figured in an accident last Saturday in Barrio Don Andres Soriano,...

The vital task of LGUs - Teach a mother, teach the nation

By Preciosa S. Soliven | April 22, 2010 - 12:00am

Literacy will not eradicate poverty, but it will give one a fighting chance.

Education and Home

Health politics demoralizes doctors

By Yvonne T. Chua | May 4, 2005 - 12:00am

(Conclusion) When barrio doctor Richard Lariosa arrived in Tagapul-an, Samar in 2002, he was surprised to learn that medicines for the town were being kept at the mayor’s office. "When you gave a prescription...

Trader survives ambush

March 17, 2004 - 12:00am

A trader cheated death after two unidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen strafed his car in an ambush early yesterday morning in Caloocan City. A frazzled Nolasco Baldazo, 38, married, of 169 Malolos Avenue, Bagong...