Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid
Community journalism in a ‘state of flux’
March 28, 2025 4:06 pm
To the outside world, the image of the community journalist is one who works under difficult circumstances. This is the consequence of having been one of the five countries that have been on the top 10 in number of journalist killings over the last 10 years. Last year, we ranked No. 9 and No. 8 in 2023 according to the Global Community Index, which had ranked countries based on unsolved murder of journalists in the past decade.
A memoir on moral courage and hope
March 15, 2025 7:14 am
An important lesson that Ed Garcia shares with us in his 260-page memoir, “Reinventing Resistance” is that “peacemaking is a task that never seems to end, and that therefore, one must find meaning in one’s work and one’s life,” quoting the much admired Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic.
A memoir on moral courage and hope
February 28, 2025 4:04 pm
In “Reinventing Resistance,” launched last Monday, Ed Garcia noted that the book is a collection of his experiences in defying the odds in a world that had lost its moral compass and unable to stop violence inflicted on vulnerable sectors. It describes this journey of five decades as an example of how we can make a difference when we join the voices of others in “kapit bisig” (arm in arm), so that we can be sure no one is left behind.
The plight of the municipal fishermen
February 14, 2025 4:13 pm
It is common knowledge that the municipal fishermen who constitute 2.3 million of our population are considered the “poorest of the poor” sector.
Addressing priority needs in education
January 31, 2025 4:02 pm
Like many, I have been monitoring progress in our educational system over the past few decades. And, while there had been considerable reforms that had been undertaken to address policy gaps and program needs, there are deficits in the system which had not yet been adequately addressed due to either lack of financial support by government or benign neglect in program implementation.