Tonyo Cruz

Eleven!

Perhaps one of the first big political frustrations of my college contemporaries happened nearly three decades ago.

Here’s to a better country

My sister’s first grandson Calix was supposed to visit Friday, his birthday, but a hopelessly-inept work manager texted his mother late Thursday to take back the approved leave because the company would be understaffed. Why that became our family problem that the work manager even went so far as to brazenly say that we should just celebrate Calix’s birthday on another day, I do not know.

Goodbye 2024

I won’t be able to forget 2024. I would gladly say goodbye to it, but would always remember it for many reasons.

The ‘secret’ behind a happy Christmas

The young ones who are transitioning into adults are wondering why Christmas nowadays seems to be not as fun as when they were kids. They are slowly discovering an age-old secret.

Salute to winners of first IBP Human Rights Awards

In the run-up to International Human Rights Day, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) last week handed out the first-ever IBP Human Rights Awards to the country’s most outstanding human rights lawyers, namely, Edre U. Olalia for Luzon, Kristian Jacob A. Lora for Visayas, and Antonio C. Azarcon for Mindanao.