LANDSCAPE As painful as the truth. Manila is right now losing yet another cultural heritage treasure. There are people, among them local government officials, determined to make our capital a maze of high rises with no distinguishing aesthetic features; they want Manila to look like New York, I was...
A suspected drug pusher was arrested and yielded shabu worth P112,000 in a buy-bust operation in Sitio Huwaran, Barangay Pagsawitan, Santa Cruz, Laguna, on Monday afternoon, September 18. Police identified the suspect as “Rafael” from Pasig City. Rafael was arrested by the Santa Cruz Municipal...
HOTSPOT An official of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board this week said that provisional fare hikes may be approved by November, in response to petitions and pleas from transport groups and jeepney drivers. This is understandable because as Ibon Foundation points out...
LANDSCAPE Tomorrow is the National Day of the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. In English, the United Mexican States. That is the country’s official name for it is a federation of 32 states. In the Philippine context, their states are like our provinces. Mexico’s Independence Day is unique, it...
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted six former officials of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) of their graft charges in the alleged irregular deals for the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning of various testing and training tools and equipment worth P358.4...
FROM LEFT: Gary Lim, Long Meija, CHED (Commission on Higher Education) Commissioner Dr. Ronald Adamat, Director Marinette Lusanta, Soliman Cruz, and Apollo Abraham (Carissa Alcantara) After the success of his recent series "Dirty Linen," veteran actor Soliman Cruz took on a new role as a...
Philip Cruz with son Maki and wife Ching White is the perfect theme for your 75th birthday party, the third time you’re marking 25 years. Set off against white, all memories, all dreams of the future are at their colorful best, clear and vivid and celebratory. From left, clockwise: Rosemarie Chu,...
HOTSPOT Did you see the video from the National Bureau of Investigation about the successful use of an ID photo showing a monkey to register a SIM card? Did you read about a senator’s suggestion that a citizen should only be able to register only one SIM card and be made to pay for extra ones? In...
LANDSCAPE When I turned five, my mother threw a party. It was a barrio fiesta in the heart of Pasay where we settled after World War II. She was a young widow (juggling two babies, she used to say) living in her father’s house and writing for a newspaper on Soler Street in downtown Manila. I am...
HOTSPOT As I write this, the songs “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carrey and “Christmas in our Hearts” by Jose Mari Chan are back on the airwaves and through streaming, to herald the start of the world’s longest Christmas season. From our country to everyone else’s, we...
GEMMA CRUZ ARANETA LANDSCAPE “Enigmatic objects: Notes towards a history of the museum in the Philippines,” Dr. Resil Mojares’ monumental opus should not (and cannot) be read in one sitting. I am still very attentively mining its 500 pages, rereading chapters for nuggets of wisdom I may...
HOTSPOT While many appear to be worried or panicking about prospects for change in the 2025 midterm elections and even the 2028 presidential elections, we’re not seeing any concerted effort around the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) happening on Oct. 30, 2023. Each of our...
