As Delta Reports Profits, Airlines Are Optimistic About 2025
This year just got started, but it is already shaping up nicely for U.S. airlines. After several setbacks, the industry ended 2024 in a fairly strong position because of healthy demand for tickets and the ability of several airlines to control costs and raise fares, experts said. Barring any big problems, airlines — especially the […]
Employees without fiduciary duties cannot be dismissed for loss of trust and confidence
Dear PAO, I worked as a landscaper for a real estate developer. The marketing department directed me to canvass the prices of plants or ornamentals for a project site. They reasoned that transporting the plants from our head office to the project site was too costly; thus, for this particular project, it was more economical […]
In Los Angeles, Hotels Become a Refuge for Fire Evacuees
The lobby of Shutters on the Beach, the luxury oceanfront hotel in Santa Monica that is usually abuzz with tourists and entertainment professionals, had by Thursday transformed into a refuge for Los Angeles residents displaced by the raging wildfires that have ripped through thousands of acres and leveled entire neighborhoods to ash. In the middle […]
Doctrine of command responsibility | The Manila Times
Dear PAO,My friend was apprehended for a crime. The apprehending officers allegedly extorted a certain amount from him in exchange for his freedom. My friend was released after paying the money, but he wants to file an appropriate criminal case against the members of the arresting team, including all of their officers. I told my […]
How the Northern Lights and Digital Photography Have Boosted Astrotourism
Last August, over a calm Michigan lake, Karl Duesterhaus, 34, of Chicago, was treated to an unusual phenomenon: the northern lights, which appeared as hazy colors in a brighter-than-usual night sky. It was a cool experience, he said, but he was surprised when he looked at cellphone photos taken the night before. “The colors were […]
Premarital sexual relations between single adults are not immoral
Dear PAO, After passing the licensure examination for teachers, I secured a job as a high school teacher in a private school run by a religious organization. As a single individual, I developed an intimate relationship with my boyfriend, who is also single. In the course of our relationship, I became pregnant. After informing the […]
Park City Strike Ends With Increase in Wages for Ski Patrollers
Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain in Utah triumphantly returned to the slopes on Thursday, after ending a nearly two-week strike over union wages and benefits. The strike hobbled the largest U.S. ski resort during a busy holiday period and sparked online fury about deepening economic inequality in rural mountain areas. Late Wednesday, the Park […]
Baptismal certificate is not sufficient to prove filiation
Dear PAO, I have a question regarding the use of my baptismal certificate, which indicates the name of my deceased father. Can I use it to prove filiation? Aside from my baptismal certificate, I don’t have any other document to prove my filiation to him. Can you enlighten me on this matter? Hazel Dear Hazel, […]
Two Bodies Found in Plane’s Landing Gear at Fort Lauderdale Airport
Two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane on Monday after a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. JetBlue Flight 1801 departed Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:49 p.m. Monday and landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 11:10 p.m., according to […]
Recognition of decree of foreign divorce
Dear PAO, I was married to an American citizen for 10 years. Thereafter, he decided to obtain a decree of an absolute divorce in the US. After it was granted, my ex-husband married another woman in the US. May I legally remarry here in the Philippines, even if an absolute divorce decree was issued by […]