BOCALA when she was freed by an Iloilo City court for the peace talks in Norway in 2016. (Tara Yap) ILOILO CITY – A court in Metro Manila has sentenced a high-ranking official of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) to life imprisonment for a 1975 murder. A Taguig...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “The Lord gazes at the Philippine Islands:” In Spanish, “El Señor mira (contempla) a las islas Filipinas” is a satirically humorous piece, translated into English by Dr. Encarnacion Alzona in 1957 and included in “Rizal’s Prose” published by the Rizal...
President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said he feels terrible for his wife Liza and their kids, for they are "forced" to leave their everyday life behind as he assumes the presidency on June 30. President-elect Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. feels bad for his family as they have to leave...
Novotel Manila Araneta City presents its first resident hotel services cloud, aptly named "My Novotel Manila Boutique." It is the first property of Accor in the Philippines and the first Novotel brand in Asia to develop an online ordering platform with a variety of hotel services ranging from...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Like many of us today, Jose Rizal must have wondered whether the first batch of natives who were baptized knew what was going on. Language was a barrier; Spanish missionaries had not yet learned our native tongues, nor compiled those monumental glossaries and grammar...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Jose Rizal, who would have turned 161 on June 19, was a sociologist by instinct, an irrepressible observer of human nature. He could not resist conjuring scenes and creating incredible characters from the frenetic tumble of events that marked his life. He wrote a short...
The Makati Medical Center Care Access Araneta City offers outpatient consultation, outpatient diagnostic services, and has a hemodialysis unit One of the top hospitals in the Philippines, Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed) recently opened its newest outpatient care center, the Makati Medical Center...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta On June 12, there will be a “Heritage Cannon” on the dolomite beach and it will most probably fire a deafening shot (sans projectile) to celebrate the 124th anniversary of our Independence. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) aims “to...
Korean artists NCT Dream, SHINee’s Key, WEi and Alice brought joy to fans as they performed at the “Begin Again: K-pop Edition” concert held on May 29 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. After more than two years since the pandemic, concerts have been allowed in the country and Pinoy fans were...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Elvis Presley, then the indisputable “King of Rock” was the icon of all my female contemporaries, to the chagrin of the Maryknoll nuns (our teachers) who denounced him as an “occasion of sin.” Until Elvis came into the picture, no one sang with such a sexually...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta At this writing, 22:16 hours, May 9, I am seized by dread as election results from various sources appear online. From Regions 1 and 2, the solid North, the BBM-Duterte tandem has emerged the winner, as expected. But, there are 15 more regions in the Republic of the...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Throughout his life, Jose Rizal constantly argued with himself. In his mind, political thoughts contended vigorously, endlessly. He expressed his convictions and beliefs in his letters to his family and contemporaries, in travel journals, essays for “La...
