The known and unknown in automation
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (22 February) — It is unfortunate, indeed, that private telecommunications giants harbored fears of being attacked or terrorized in providing the central technology backbone for the upcoming automated polls.
We just hope they had changed their minds, and reconsidered their positions, to focus on what needs to be done right at [...]
High-tech vigilance
TALKING POINT
by Bong Pedalino
Maasin City — This week, starting on February 9 to be precise, the circus that is called the election campaign for the national elective posts will be officially on.
These campaigns had been on, actually, ever since September last year, thanks or no thanks to the no-more-premature-campaigning name of the game.
The only [...]
Birth pains for high-tech polls
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (25 January) — Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Jose Melo was right. “We are comfortable with the preparations that we have,” the man in-charge of the action for the 2010 computerized elections was quoted as saying.
“The pace of the preparations is going quite well. We have invested a lot [...]
The fate of 16 towns, cities
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (19 January) — Last time I heard, the controversial Supreme Court (SC) decision regarding the 16 new cities case had become final and executory in favor of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP. This was on May 21, 2009.
Then suddenly, four days before Christmas, 2009, the SC reversed [...]
Letter to editor
Dear Jani:
I hope this email finds you well. I also hope by now, family members have finally recuperated from funeral-related tasks.
By the way, sincere thanks to you and Ronaldo Reyes for the article/coverage about me. You didn’t have to do it, but I sure do appreciate the recognition. I’ll probably post my comments online at the right [...]
CAMILO “YEL” COBILE: The man who connects “home” to the world
By Ronald O. Reyes
The spirit of “Bayanihan” (mutual aid) will always prevail in the psyche of every Filipino. This peculiar characteristic of ours, however, is even more appreciated if it is being manifested continually by any Filipino citizen who have had acquired fame and fortune abroad.
This best characterizes Camilo “Yel” Kangleon Cobile. Born in Maasin, [...]
For Inko Dadoy, “Godspeed in your journey in the afterlife!,” Sir…
Yel Kangleon Cobile
Virginia, USA
Gus Arnaiz, my journalism mentor at the university of hard knocks
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (December 29) — Gus Arnaiz has gone back to his Maker. That is an understatement. For to him, he has gone back to his Maker.
The eternal life after this life has always been one of our hot topics up for discussion everytime we sat down together to down bottles [...]
2010 BSP National Rover Moot and One-Visayas Jamboree in Maasin
MISSIONS AND SIGHTS AND MOTIONS
By Maloney Samaco
The Boys Scouts of the Philippines Eastern Visayas Regional Council approved the back-to back hosting of the 7th National Rover Moot and the 1st One-Visayas Jamboree during its meeting last October 10, 2009 at Bohol BSP Council Office in Tagbilaran City. Presided over by yours truly, the original [...]
Eight days of Martial Rule
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (15 December) — Martial Law has been lifted in Maguindanao after a record eight days of swift implementation, from December 4 to 12, 2009.
With this development, perennial critics of the government were pleased and appeased. Or were they?
Virtually far from it, for they will always have bagful of alibis [...]
