I believe that one vital element that continues to pull the Philippines down is poor customer service. I’ll go out on a limb and even say that only around 20% of all public and private entities know the meaning of good customer service. Banks are number 1 in my book for sloppy customer care, especially [...]

A portal site that offers news about Cebu, plus other tidbits on real estate properties, personalities, scenes and things happening in and around the "Queen City of the South."

An anonymous reader asked, "Why do you hate ABS-CBN?" Whatever gave him/her that idea? I don’t hate ABS-CBN. What I hate is their –and all TV networks for that matter- exploitation of what is so wrong with our culture. It creates a feeding frenzy so much like sharks feeding on one another after one of [...]

I have often wondered if Christianity is for Filipinos. Many of us have watched spellbound as Cardinals all over the globe convened in Rome to elect a new Pope. In Rome! All because Catholicism began in the Empire of Rome. So, in effect, Catholicism is a Western religion embraced by Eastern people. It’s no different [...]

Teddy Benigno wrote in his column dated, Feb. 7, 2005: None of our politicians today even dares to dream as Ninoy did, battle the Fates unflinchingly, pull out the sword, because they have none. And I ask you: How can this country, which bred Ninoy Aquino, which bred Rizal, Bonifacio, Mabini, have produced the sorry, [...]