Author: Jaime Laya
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Trails of gold
The Philippine Map Collectors Society presents a pioneering research into the trade networks that for centuries before Magellan arrived linked Igorot miners, middlemen, and traders who crossed the seas to exchange their wares for gold nuggets and gold grains.
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The Morning After the Night Before
Election 2022: When strangers insulted strangers, friends unfriended friends, siblings disowned siblings.
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Promises, victory, and then the hard part
Choose wisely. The new administration is inheriting a weak economy, high public debt, a depreciating peso, and prospects for more of the same.
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From praying to voting: Filipinas have gone a long way
Filipinas have gone a long way in the 85 years since they began voting. We’ve had two women presidents and in two weeks’ time, Leni Robredo and Sara Duterte are up for election to the two highest posts in the land.
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A distinguished past and a bright future
Philippine technical and vocational education has a distinguished past. With computers, information technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, ahead is a bright future.
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Royal, pontifical, and real
Among Philippine universities, only UP was above average, ranking no. 399 among the top 1,300 of the world’s universities. Ateneo de Manila was in the 601-650 category, De la Salle University, in the 801-1,000 group, and the University of Santo Tomas, among the 1001-1200.
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Where’s the book?
A prized collection of book, including early pearls of Philippine literature, such as the 1864 first edition of Pagsusulatan ni Urbana at Felisa na ucol sa pagharap sa capoua tauo by Imus priest Fr. Modesto de Castro.
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Oh no, not again
No one under 50 years old knows how similar our present situation is, only worse, to the 1960s before Martial Law and the 1980s when events were building up to EDSA.
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It’s more fun in the Philippines (travel tales)
Highlights of my life's travels, from Batanes in the north to Tawi-Tawi in the south.
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Where there’s a Will, there’s a Way (Part 2)
The Civil Code is rather precise about who should get what of whatever is not buried or cremated with the dearly departed.
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Sampaguita blossoms for a young fraile
A story of love between a tall, strapping Spanish priest and his greatest temptation, Soledad of Puncán
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Galleon Trade and Intramuros confidential
Some gems from the 1920s writings of American in Manila Percy H. Hill about Intramuros, the Galleon Trade, the Spanish friars, and more.
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A teenage Yankee in Bulacan
The breathtaking adventures of fictional 17-year-old American Dick Carson as a captive of Emilio Aguinaldo's soldiers.
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No Suki Card needed
A directory of herbal remedies you can pick off the garden or the backyard for common ailments like colds, flu, high blood sugar, high cholesterols, maybe even COVID
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