HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Having dozed off a bit earlier than usual on Wednesday night, I woke up at around 2 a.m. of Thursday to haunting sounds of typhoon Ulysses’ howling winds. Like many others, it was nearly impossible for me to go back to sleep. The next few hours, we watched friends on Facebook...
LANDSCAPE Honorable ladies and gentlemen, many of you do not know me because you were not yet in office when I was working for the late Mayor Alfredo S. Lim. If memory serves, some of you I already know like Councilors Josie Siscar, Lou Veloso, Roberto Asilo, Uno Lim, Joel Chua, DJ Bagatsing, Mon...
Paul Lee has averaged 25.3 points in Magnolia's five-game win streak inside the bubble. (PBA Images) SMART CLARK GIGA CITY--Instrumental in igniting Magnolia's hot streak in the PBA bubble, deadly scorer Paul Lee was chosen as the Cignal TV-PBA Press Corps Player of the Week award for the period of...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz As I write this, it is still uncertain who between Joe Biden or Donald Trump won the Nov. 3 elections. Their leads in the remaining battleground states are shrinking. Third World countries are known to give delayed election results, but not the United States of America. But here...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta It is cheaper to kill them in a plane crash, a private plane crash, he said, rather cavalierly with a half smirk. There is no evidence, no smoking gun because the plane crashes, that is your smoking gun. He is John Perkins, retired chief economic adviser, and his...
Northport's Robert Bolick drives past Columbian's CJ Perez during the PBA Commissioner's Cup at Smart Araneta Coliseum, July 3, 2019 (MB File Photo) NorthPort's Robert Bolick and Blackwater's Carl Bryan Cruz admitted feeling mixed emotions with their absence in the PBA bubble. Bolick (ACL) and Cruz...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Who wouldn’t sympathize with parents Francis and Relissa Lucena who went to the Supreme Court to beg that their daughter Alicia Jasper (AJ) Lucena, a full-time activist, be returned to them? As far as I know, this was the first such case that parents of an activist went to...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta From a distance, I am watching how you are restoring Manila’s historical contours, deftly melding the past with the present, to assure a brighter future for the city of our birth (we are both Manila-born). Behind the City Hall, the Bonifacio monument with the...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Actress Liza Soberano ain’t the first actress to approach Gabriela to talk on girls’ and women’s rights. And she won’t be the last. Founded in 1984 by the likes of Sr. Mary John Mananzan and Maita Gomez, Gabriela first standing up against the kleptocrat and brutal Marcos...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Sometime in 2018, the Office of the President issued Executive Order (EO) 55 which had a rather quirky title: “…constituting a steering committee for the commemoration of the Quincentennial of the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines, the victory of...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz By now, Reina Nasino and her baby River have become household names. An urban poor community organizer, Nasino, together with Bayan Manila campaign director Ram Carlo Bautista and labor advocate Alma Moran, was arrested in November, 2019, after the police raided the Bayan...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Two decades ago, when I had a business of my own, I realized that my 13 employees had no idea of time. Although I had taught them to arrive punctually at work, none of them gave time an economic value since its only manifestation was the intensity of the sun, scorching...
