The Filipino everyman as businessman
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (13 January) — It is hard to imagine the image of the average Filipino as engaging in business, a legal, legitimate, profit-oriented enterprise be it in the services sector or in commercial trading, buy-and-sell concern, merchandising or any other gainful activity.
This is not to say that the ordinary Filipino does [...]
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, [...]
Expectations for 2010
TALKING POINT
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (5 January) — No big deal here, really, because every handover of a new number for a coming year brings with it lots of excitement of good tidings to come, either on personal matters or for the good of the community, the country as a whole.
But 2010 somehow stands out [...]
South Leyte hospital registers only one minor injury for New Year’s Eve
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City (January 4) — The way it was raining non-stop here day and night on December 31, 2009, until midnight on New Year’s day, and most of the day on January 1, 2010, one would think nobody got hurt with the wet and subdued noisy celebration that welcomed the coming of another [...]
OUR HEARTFELT THANKS TO ALL
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 [...]
Maasinhon in US suggests hero citation for late mediaman Agustin Arnaiz
By Bong Pedalino
Maasin City — A Maasinhon now residing in Virginia, USA, has called on the “big three” local leaders — City Mayor Maloney Samaco, Gov. Damian Mercado, and Cong. Roger Mercado — to award a posthumous hero citation to Agustin Cerro Arnaiz, 85, for having actively served as member of Philippine Scouts during the [...]
Veteran journalist Gus Arnaiz, writes 30
2nd Update 15:45 December 27, 2009
MAASIN CITY – Veteran journalist and publisher, Agustin Cerro “Gus” Arnaiz, Sr. succumbed to cardio pulmonary arrest after a massive asthma attack at around 7:20 p.m. Saturday. He was 85 years old.
He is survived by his wife Salud, children Eleanor, Agustin Jr, Januario, Filipinas, Margaret, Victoria, Mary May [...]
