THE CARABAO RIDER by JEROME VARON Society has, for years, accepted a distorted perception about aged individuals as “spent and decrepit” members of the human race. This gives the notion that people who have accumulated a certain number of years in their existence are mostly treading on a downward path in terms of productivity and usefulness. …
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Newspaper offices go extinct
“Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.” – Bill Gates It’s hard to imagine the Philippine newspapers—national and regional—operating without a newsroom. In the News Express, the first regional newspaper I had the privilege to work with in March 1988, …
Pag-IBIG Fund earns COA’s highest opinion anew for 8th straight year
For the eighth consecutive year, Pag-IBIG Fund has again earned the highest opinion from the Commission on Audit (COA) for the presentation of its financial statements, top officials announced on Tuesday. State auditors, in a letter dated August 28, informed the agency that it has rendered its highest rating –referred to as an unmodified opinion …
Christ is God’s word to us
We need to understand that God has fully revealed himself to us in Christ. Christ is the Son of the God, the very Word of God, who became man precisely to show us who God is and how we are related to him. Our need to know and love God is fully met in Christ. …
End of construction cartels?
It is not often that we hear of news of the Solicitor General losing a case in the Supreme Court. The top government lawyer has been on a winning streak in sensational cases where partisan lines are sharply drawn and decisions are difficult to render. However, in a decision that it recently promulgated on a …
Charcoal powder
Squid ink in paella, yes. Activated charcoal powder in paella and other foods. How’s that again? A fad among foodies maybe, activated charcoal powder is made in a process that involves slowly burning wood – or coconut shells, to be more familiar about it. Then it is treated with oxygen to produce a highly porous …
Designing apps to fight COVID-19
With all that has been happening here in our country, it easy to overlook good news. Amid the pandemic, it would be far from our minds to think that some of our fellow Filipinos would stand out to be among the most innovative thinkers, not only in Asia, but potentially across the globe. The recent …
Capitol-run molecular lab to boost testing capacity
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Negros Occidental provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, revealed the provincial government is eyeing to boost the testing capacity of the molecular laboratory at Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City. Diaz said the provincial government is hiring seven additional medical technologists for the molecular laboratory so that it …
Pathologist tells NegOcc, Bacolod City gov’ts: ‘Closely monitor Covid-19 positivity rate’
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A chief pathologist from the Department of Health (DOH) has advised both the provincial government of Negros Occidental and the city government of Bacolod to closely monitor the current Covid-19 positivity rate. This comes after an initial report on Friday, September 4, revealed that 212 of the 1,598 individuals who …
Talisay City gov’t job hire nabbed in drug bust
A job hire of the Talisay City government was arrested following a buy-bust operation around 9:40 a.m. on Saturday at Hacienda Carmen in the city’s Barangay Dos Hermanas. Police Captain Julius Caesar Colado of the Talisay City police identified the suspect as 38-year-old Hernando Posadas, Jr. alias “JR” of the said neighborhood. Law enforcement officials …