Players from different 3x3 teams gather outside the Smart Araneta Coliseum after a fire broke out Wednesday, April 20. (JONAS TERRADO) The PBA decided to postpone Game 6 of the Governors’ Cup Finals due to a fire that broke out Wednesday, April 20 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. PBA commissioner...
Firetrucks line up inside the Smart Araneta Coliseum. (JONAS TERRADO) A fire broke out at the Smart Araneta Coliseum on Wednesday, April 20, forcing the suspension of the PBA 3x3 Grand Finals and possibly Game 6 of the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals. The incident occurred before noon, forcing PBA 3x3...
A fire incident was reported inside the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City on Wednesday, April 20. Based on a Facebook live of the Quezon City Fire District 5, the fire was reported in the upper section of the coliseum. According to Bureau of Fire Protection Public Information...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta I am the happy owner of two pre-loved Camilo Osias books both titled, “The Philippine Readers;” I do not know if these were also used in private schools, specially the sectarian ones, during that period called “peacetime.” The revised edition of Book...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In 1901, General Arthur MacArthur (Douglas’s father) announced: “A rapid extension of educational facilities is an exclusively military measure…” What a clever strategy, that was the essence of “benevolent assimilation” and “pacification.” Immediately,...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta As Women’s Month comes to an end, I am rereading essays written by my mother (Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, CGN) about the Filipino woman. She was not a feminist, yet she defended women’s rights to education, freedom of speech and assembly, the pursuit of happiness and...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta How I wish I had asked my grandmothers more about themselves. Both lived in historical times; both survived a yesterday of revolutions and wars of invasion; their today overlapped with mine and they unobtrusively prepared me for a tomorrow of uncertainties. My...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta (Part I) To celebrate Women’s Day (March 8), I resurrected the first ever article I wrote about my mother, Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, published in a widely-circulated daily in 1964, a month after I had won the Miss International Beauty title in Long Beach, California....
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta I n September 2013, with Syria in mind, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation said that the founders of the United Nations Organization must have understood that decisions affecting war and peace should be made only by consensus. And with the USA’s...
Photo from PBA Metro Manila’s shift to the lowest alert level status will allow the PBA to hold its Governors’ Cup games at the Smart Araneta Coliseum before a full capacity starting Wednesday, March 2. PBA commissioner Willie Marcial confirmed the move as the league is now looking further at...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta My zoom mates and I were arguing about People Power 1. What happened to all that enthusiasm that toppled a dictator? When the dust settled, the old order crept back into place. The pyramid of possibilities for structural changes crumbled steadily. Then someone asked if...
June Dalisay In line with the celebration of National Arts Month, the Gateway Gallery will be conducting two back-to-back talks on art and cultural management on Feb. 24. Art conservator June Mercy Poticar-Dalisay will discuss preventive conservation, qualifications of a conservator, factors of...
