(Graph attached to this post shows the volume of Pork in metric tons imported from 2016 to 2025. 2nd image downloaded from Silvercrest Farm FB page.) Everytime I write about the need to temper, even temporarily suspending, Pork Importation, there are comments accusing me of also doing the same thing when I was Secretary of…
WEATHER is influenced largely by wind directions. Westerly, which I think is known in Tagalog as “hanging kanluran” is from the western rim of the Pacific. From way back in college, we were told that Davao Region to include Surigao provinces has Type IV climate. Meaning it has no definite rainy or hot season. Rainfall is…
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright By the time this article comes out, I am celebrating my 62nd birthday somewhere in Spain as I do my first ever Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. This is definitely one birthday celebration that I will not forget for it’s going to challenge…
Here is a Cattle Feeding System which might work for Carrot farmers of Cordillera. American Cattle Farmer Justin Pettit of Santa Carota Beef in Bakersfield, California, finishes cattle on upcycled waste carrots instead of traditional grain. “Founded by the Pettit family in California, Santa Carota Beef upcycles up to 1 million pounds of culled carrots…
Why and what makes investments, bank deposits and business transactions so controversial to the prosecution in the impeachment trial of VP Sara Duterte? In the same vein, why is it of no concern to members of the prosecution the gargantuan ₱1-trillion plus in kickbacks from ghost flood control projects that are actuallly purloined from taxpayers money? Talk to…
There is a kind of dishonesty that does not always come in the form of an outright li It does not invent facts. It does not necessarily fabricate a story. It may even contain statements that are technically true. Its power lies somewhere else—in what is deliberately left unsaid. This is where lying by omission…
They have presented the SALNs, the SEC, the banks, the insurance companies, the BIR. Plenty of documents. But when these are ranged against testimonial evidence, they go nowehere. A witness is yet to speak with definitve voice and point the accusing finger that would dirty the hands of the vice president. The way Clarissa Ocampo…
“Unprecedented events occur regularly—be prepared”. – Seth Klarman With all the Philippine economic indicators going haywire – rising inflation, depreciating peso, increasing fuel prices, worsening unemployment/underemployment, etc – how financially secure and confident are you to face life’s uncertainties such as job loss, unexpected medical expenses, natural calamities, pre-mature death and bad investments? Whether we…
The presence of Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte in the impeachment trial reveals the disparity of knowledge in governance between him, members of the Senate and lawyers of the prosecution. Without him and anyone in that Senate hall knowing what the prosecution did was to project the image of yet another Duterte sibling that…
Speaking of demeanor, it was San Juan Rep. and prosecutor Bel Zamora whose courtroom disposition was put in the spotlight. Later, it was the turn of Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte. I will not dignify any allusion to sexism simply because the subject was a woman and in another day is a man. They were not…
