LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Frankly, I am surprised that the institutions of the United States of America have remained immutable through the course of centuries. I thought their judiciary system was going to crumble in the face of the well-planned onslaught of outgoing president, Donald J. Trump....
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Mass vaccination against the coronavirus started this week in the United Kingdom, with a Filipino nurse administering the vaccine. Many Filipinos could only say: “Sana all.” Some time earlier, the Japanese Parliament passed a law ensuring that all residents of Japan, citizens...
LANDSCAPE The 75 th Postmaster General of the USA, Mr. Louis Dejoy, is M.I.A! In May, 2020, the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service appointed him to that strategic post, not exactly to everyone’s surprise. Although he was an outsider, Mr. Dejoy is a successful businessman who...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I’m sorry to break it to you, but this seemingly difficult time is a great time to be a progressive. The avalanche of fake news about the nature and objectives of activism and all sorts of social engagement even by non-activists provide us an opportunity to explain and to...
LANDSCAPE I am writing about Jim Toolen to show you that this world is filled with people who are interconnected without their knowing it, who made lasting impressions on each other without suspecting it, who are unaware that their lives have mingled like sand and water. Meeting someone again after...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Ever wondered how and why TV, radio, online and print media, including this newspaper, get to decide what is news at any given time or day? What’s the criteria? What’s in an event or a person that they make it to “breaking news,” “nagbabagang balita,” or live...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In my secret book, there are a select few who should have been and should be immortal; whom the Almighty should have frozen in time but in the pink of health and at the cusp of their creativity. These are (or were) the people who can live forever and should have lived...
By DEAN DECKER PARTY ICON Louie Cruz It won’t be easy to forget Louie Cruz . Last Friday was a sad day for the nightowls and party people of Manila when news spread that he had passed away. He was an icon for those of us who came of age at any point in the last three decades of the last century,...
By JAMI LEDESMA DATE WITH AN ANGEL Louie in one of his wild antics on the party scene Louie Cruz died on a Friday. Ironic, especially for someone who, for much of his life, became extra vibrant at the start of a weekend. For somebody who was neither a parent nor a sibling to me, the influence he...
Many are downright excited about a report that Edgar Mortiz is currently engaged in talks with John Lloyd Cruz over his much-talked about TV comeback project. The actor has been scarce for some time, having decided to walk away from show business back in 2017. Though he has done a cameo in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The 2021 budget for President Duterte’s anti-communist task force, known as NTF-ECLAC, is P19 billion, which some say is only a tiny fraction of the P4.5-trillion total national budget for next year. Many would argue it is a total waste of taxpayer money and clearly a...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta For us Asians, the 19 th century was pivotal because total and absolute colonization was achieved by the European powers that invaded our region with superior fire power and technology. Our ancestors did not only lose ancestral lands and waterways; they were...
