LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta They wanted to open their own night school and hire a professor to teach them Spanish. To the Agustinian parish priest it was an act of defiance; to Marcelo del Pilar, Graceano Lopez Jaena and Jose Rizal, Filipino women were throwing off colonial shackles. Rizal was...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I’m quite sure many have seen the memes, cartoons and short essays about it. The younger set from the Gen Z are up in arms over what they sense is being considered as “retirement funds” of their parents and elders. In their thinking, that is unfair and flatly wrong. They...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Personnel of the Bureau of Customs intercepted a wooden vessel laden with smuggled cigarettes worth P25 million in the vicinity of Sta. Cruz Island here on Thursday, Dec. 8. 707 cases of smuggled cigarettes intercepted off Sta. Cruz Island in Zamboanga City. (BOC photo) The...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Early on, towards the end of the 16th century, Spanish ministers had nagging doubts about keeping the archipelago named after King Felipe II. Although the Capitanía-General de Filipinas was in the vicinity of Maluco, Ternate, Tidore, Ambon – the fabled spice islands...
Many questioned Sheryl Cruz 's absence at a recent reunion involving celebrity cousins Geneva, Sunshine and Donna Cruz. Geneva finally cleared the air via social media. She wrote, "To all those asking for Ate She… she was already Sheryl Cruz, acting and working, so hindi na namin sya nakasama sa...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Poet, artist and activist Ericson Acosta died on Bonifacio Day, Nov. 30, at around 2 a.m., in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental. He was 50. The tributes continue to pour in from contemporaries, fellow poets and artists, classmates and friends. According to the 62nd Infantry Battalion...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Up to now, there are those who believe that laziness is what’s behind the poverty and difficult life of many Filipinos. Jose Rizal already answered this charge in his time, but the fable still exists, infecting minds about the real reasons behind destitution. Enter the World...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Last week, we were intrigued by reports about a 30-meter deep and 300-meter-wide tunnel, with a 1.72-meter-high cave, totally man-made, “discovered” in the New Bilibid Prison Reservation in Muntinlupa City. Was someone looking for gold? Towards the end of the year,...
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Olympic and triple world amateur boxing champion Andy Cruz -- who was expelled from Cuba's official federation in July -- is planning to turn pro and says he left his home country "legally," after speculation he had defected. Olympic and triple world amateur boxing...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Today, Nov. 19, is the 195th day since the May 9, 2022 elections. The victors have formed national and local administrations, organized the House and the Senate, and have long started to conduct the business of government in the executive, legislative and local offices. The...
It seems like John Lloyd Cruz and Isabel Santos are slowly opening up about their relationship. Just recently, Isabel shared behind-the-scenes photos of them attending an event. The last picture shows the two holding each other's hands. Many netizens bombarded the comment section with heart emojis....
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Fr. Pedro Chirino, S.J. ( 1557-1635) arrived with governor-general Gomez Perez Dasmarinas in 1590. He wrote “ Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604),” which is valuable because it captured a historical moment, those early “points of contact” between natives and...
