Category Archives: Opinion

RUMOR --- We should not swallow “hook, line and sinker” this  rumor about alleged recruitment of our local muslim  boys in Mindanao  by the terrorist group in the Middle East called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, for short) for training purposes.  This is...

We must remember that our life here on earth is just a temporal passage towards an eternal existence in another life which would constitute either the reward or punishment, depending on how we lived our existence on this earth.  Nobody doubts this life is temporal...

As vocation month is celebrated every September,  let us rediscover our vocation in life—as what God wants us to do. God has called us to three forms of vocations: Priestly and religious life, single blessedness, and married life. The Archbishop of Davao, Romulo G. Valles, urged us...

WE have just celebrated the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the perfect and universal mother given to all of us by no less than Christ himself. The celebration somehow reminds us that, like her, we are meant for heaven, our ultimate...

“HIPON” CONTROVERSY --- Being a celebrity or a public figure  has its rigor. Take the case of that comedian chap Ramon Bautista. Truth to tell, I am not that updated with show biz so when his controversy calling Dabawenyas   as “hipon” surfaced, I had to...

Sometimes the use of  media of social communications gets the upper hand as far as spreading good and noble ideas.  It’s because in direct verbal confrontation and dialogue sometimes there are people just too sensitive for conversing so directly, or feelings become more easily agitated...

As an annual festival in Davao during the third week of August, Kadayawan is a celebration of life and thanksgiving for the gifts of nature and the wealth of multicolored culture which make up the identity of the city. In the past, ethnic tribes residing at...