Sonny Coloma

Publisher

SONNY COLOMA served as Communications Secretary under President Benigno S. Aquino III; Head of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) under President Corazon C. Aquino; and Transportation and Communications Undersecretary under President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. He was the Don Jose Cojuangco Professor of Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) where he also served as Dean of Executive Education. He was President of the University of Makati. In the private sector, he was a senior executive of a commercial bank. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Southeast Asian Inter-Disciplinary Development Institute’s School of Organization Development, an MBA (With Distinction) from AIM and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines. He is the author of DIWA: Spirit-Led Organization in the Philippines and Pillars of Good Governance; and co-author of The Moving Train: Strategy, Organization and People; and KAPWA: Toward a Filipino Management Ethos.

Alex Eala: Pride of the Filipino nation

For more than a week last month, Filipinos savored with pride the brilliant performance of 19-year-old Alex Eala on the tennis courts of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Entering the World Tennis Association (WTA) 1000 event with a world ranking of no. 140 among women professionals, she went all the way to the semifinals before bowing out and earning the no. 75 rank.

Principled unity: Lessons from history

The recent arrest and extradition of former President Rodrigo Duterte to face trial for alleged crimes against humanity has reignited deep divisions in Philippine society.

‘Some People Need Killing’: Uphold sanctity of life

It was at the UP College of Mass Communication where I first met Patricia Evangelista, circa 2015, while I was serving as Communications Secretary. She was the first to ask a question during an open forum that followed a talk that I just delivered. Eight years later, I got hold of her book, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (United Kingdom: Random House, 2023). Today, the book serves as a rich source of factual accounts on extrajudicial killings (EJK) that occurred from June 2016 onward.

Fr. Rocky Evangelista: Tuloy sa Don Bosco’s servant- leader

Growing up in Barangay Pio del Pilar, Makati, I played with fellow youngsters who went to the Don Bosco campus on Pasong Tamo (now Chino Roces avenue) and Pasay Road (now Arnaiz street) on weekends to play football and basketball and attend catechism classes. They brought home with them goodies such as rice or boxes of wheat that could be useful as a food enhancer.

Bert Lina: A well-lived life

On Tuesday, February 25, I received sad news about the passing of an esteemed friend, Alberto ‘Bert’ Lina.