Browsing by Author "Vego, Herbert"

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    • Alarming Chinese incursion 

      Vego, Herbert (DailyGuardian, June 15, 2020, on page 5)
      We wish we could believe that a newly completed beaching ramp built by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Pag-asa Island at the West Philippine Sea is really meant to counter the incursion of the Chinese naval ...

    • Alarming river siltation in Antique 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, January 1, 2020, on page 9-15)
      Secretary Roy Cimatu of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) could not keep his hands off the problem anymore. And so he called the mayors of all 18 municipalities of Antique for a conference on a ...

    • Back to 'fishing' 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, January 3, 2019, on page 5)
      Studies in the 1970s showed that Greenland Eskimos had a lower rate of heart disease than did other individuals living in Greenland at the same time. Analysis of dietary differences between the groups showed that the Eskimos ...

    • Caluya's Tatusan Festival reels off May 22 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, April 26, 2015, on page 15-16)
      Every annual celebration of Tatusan Festival, this isolated island municipality literally suspends its isolation in the three days it takes to gather together migrant natives, local and foreign tourists to its white-sand ...

    • Looking back to Congress of yesteryears 

      Vego, Herbert (DailyGuardian, May 24, 2021, on page 7)
      We senior citizens recall that era when our men and women in Congress would deliver privilege speeches holding the President accountable for unconstitutional and unlawful acts. Those were the pre-martial days in the 1950s ...

    • Mayor seeks PNoy help over 8-year-old spill 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, August 7, 2014, on page 1-12)
      It was eight years ago when the oil tanker “M/T Solar I” sank off Nueva Valencia town on August 11, 2006, spilling one-fourth of its two million liters of bunker oil cargo, but some of the residents adversely affected have ...

    • Missing the river and the rolling hills 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, July 18, 2019, on page 6)
      Two places in my home province of Antique bring back pleasant childhood memories. One is the “split river” where my elementary-school classmate Joe Escartin and I used to swim on weekends. The other is the upland site of ...

    • More on fighting cholesterol 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, September 27, 2016, on page 8)
      Studies in the 1970's showed that Greenland Eskimos had a lower rate of heart disease than did other individuals living in Greenland at the same time. Analysis of dietary differences between the groups showed that the ...

    • Seaweed 'overtakes' coconut in caluya 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, March 21, 2014, on page 1-14)
      No less than Mayor Genevive Gumban Lim-Reyes has encouraged them to go into seaweed production without necessarily abandoning coconut because of its economic potential. "Seaweeds are so in demand," the mayor enthused, ...

    • Was that sea disaster 'God's will'? 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, August 6, 2019, on page 6)
      “God's will” is a two-word of comfort we say to the bereaved family over death of a loved one. But whether the persons condoled think so to, too, is unlikely. “Condolences” would not appease the bereaved, especially if ...

    • Why I like eating fish 

      Vego, Herbert (Panay News, October 18, 2018, on page 8)
      Studies in the 1970s showed that Greenland Eskimos had a lower rate of heart disease than did other individuals living in Greenland at the same time. Analysis of dietary differences between the groups showed that the Eskimos ...