Posts by Edwin G. Espejo
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Senate President Enrile: His old petulant self
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 January)—Wednesday’s diatribes between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Minority Leader Peter Allan Cayetano make one wonder if the former has pushed his envelope too far… »
COMMENTARY: Hindsight: They could have been saved
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 23 Jan) – On Saturday, Mayor Darlene Antonino Custodio led city officials and families of fishermen in honoring those who perished and went missing during… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Time to reflect
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — With the exception of promoter Bob Arum, Team Pacquiao – including Rep. Manny Pacquiao – is doggedly pursuing an early return to the ring… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Politics likely to doom idea honoring tuna fishermen
GENERAL SANTO CITY (MindaNews/14 January) — In the wake of super typhoon Pablo, where 358 tuna fishermen are still missing in addition to the eight confirmed dead 40 days after… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Long climb back to the top
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 13 Jan) – Manny Pacquiao is in a hurry. He wants to immediately redeem himself from two successive losses, the last of which was an… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Missing the point
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 11 January) –City Mayor Darlene Antonino Custodio is taking pains and splitting hairs addressing one of the maladies of a rapidly growing urban city. The sight… »
COMMENTARY: PH gov’t spokesman shoots from hip again
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda was again at his element when he immediately castigated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Post Mortem
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 3 Jan) – Lawyer Franklin “Jeng” Gacal Jr. and I chanced upon each other during our joint 35th Reunion on December 29. Expectedly, our conversation… »
COMMENTARY: Pacquiao Watching and Donaire’s Odyssey
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/17 December) — As good and as spectacular is Nonito Donaire’s KO victor over tough Jorge Arce, it cannot take away the pain of the many who… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: The Mayan curse of December
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/13 December)—The first 12 days of December came to a past yesterday and the Mayan prediction of the world apocalypse came in bundles of tragedies – a… »
SPECIAL REPORT: 306 fisherfolk still missing; A city in quiet grief
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 December) – Typhoon Pablo may have spared residents here from its wrath and fury when it swatted across large areas in eastern Mindanao. But the pain… »
Pacific tuna ground free for all once more
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/December 7) – The Philippines will now have competition in the pocket of high seas that was recently opened exclusively for Filipino tuna fishermen as the Western… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: The untold story of the Ampatuans’ fall from political grace
GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews/ 30 November)–The whole nation was still raging and indignant on a Wednesday morning three years ago in 2009 when Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez, then president of Lakas-CMD,… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Sacrificing speed for power
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – Reports from the training camp of Juan Manuel Marquez say the Mexican is bulking up and now more into weights to add… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Preempting the president
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – Finding myself in a company where I have strangely little company but nevertheless felt comfortable, I was waiting for another media dressing… »
COMMENTARY: Sotto is flattering himself
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 Nov) – Philippine Senator Tito Sotto finally offered his apology to the Kennedys after the daughter of the late US senator and presidential candidate… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Avoid the ambush
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 17 November)–As usual, I will keep tab of my round-by-round scoring when Manny Pacquiao meets Juan Manuel Marquez for the fourth time. But I will also… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: The last frontier now bastion of violence?
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 15 November)–First time visitors to General Santos City city will never fail to notice the vast tracts of idle lands upon landing at the sprawling airport… »
COMMENTARY: Makabayan’s new tact: More like it
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 10 Nov) – After Bayan Muna’s failed attempt to win a senate seat in 2010 by aligning itself with a major political party, it is… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Why can’t SMI just man up?
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 09 November) Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) has so far kept its silence over the killing of 27-year old Juvy Capion and her two young sons last… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: Speed, speed and speed
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 7 Nov) – Many have said it before. Speed kills. In a game that is dictated by power, speed is one great equalizer. Eight-division world… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: 2013 Election: SMI looms large in South Cotabato polls
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 03 November)–Call it posturing or pragmatism, but the recent decision of the South Cotabato provincial government to enlist the ‘expertise’ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale… »
Pingoy backtracks, calls off review of SMI study
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/1 Nov) — South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy on Wednesday said he is no longer pursuing a review of the environmental impact study (EIS) of Sagittarius Mines,… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Why I am voting for Teddy Casiño
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/29 October) — Frankly, I would have voted for him no matter what, but because of the little conversation I had with Rep. Neri Colmenares some three… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Thank you flood, Gensan is now a metropolis
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—(MindaNews/ 26 October) Images not only of flooded streets but entire villages used to be unthinkable for those who have been living in General Santos before it became… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Who will UNA endorse in General Santos City?
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 October) — This has been a poser that is lingering in the minds of the opposition group here which is up against the administration of incumbent… »
COMMENTARY: Brownouts are back, hopefully not for good
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 Oct) – When the 210-megawatt coal-fired power plant of STEAG in Villanueva, Misamis Oriental began its annual preventive maintenance services, the Mindanao grid, already at least… »
COMMENTARY: Mindanao peace process: Not too fast
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – Indeed, the signing of the initial peace agreement between the Philippine government under President Benigno Aquino III and the Moro Islamic Liberation… »
‘Random Girl’ gets invite from Ellen
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/7 Oct) – Bubbly Zendee Rose Tenerefe is on the roll. She is leaving for Tinseltown anytime next week. Destination: the Ellen DeGeneres show. The 21-year-old Zendee… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: The gladiator who now roams free
GENERAL SANTOS CITY(MindaNews/ 5 October) –A very close apolitical confidante of Rep. Manny Pacquiao said it was always the obsession of the eight-division world boxing champion to join politics long… »
PACQUIAO WATCH: More than just an impressive win
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 September)–Rep. Manny Pacquiao arrived in Manila early yesterday (Monday) after a four-city whirlwind promotion for his fourth ring date with Juan Manuel Marquez. Interviewed, he promptly… »
SOUTHERN COMFORT: How I wish
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 24 September)–So Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio will face her strongest challenge yet in next year’s election in the person of top City Councilor Ronnel Rivera. Unless there… »
2013 ELECTION WATCH: Opposition for a day
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 18 September)–The troika of Vice Mayor Shirlyn Bañas-Nograles, Councilor Ronnel Rivera and Apopong village chair Rogelio ‘Roel’ Pacquiao is finally coy no more. Friday, they… »
