HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The pandemic and national public health emergency provide us an opportunity to make education relevant in solving our main problem today. But instead the government seems intent on giving more problems for students, teachers, and parents. There’s no debate that...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta While we were talking about unscrupulous people who steal ideas with impunity, I asked Atty. Daniel Hofileña, expert in the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines, about the fate of the HOCUS paintings. None of these are for sale and the next best thing to...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It has been months since the administration declared a “national public health emergency,” but what has defined its response is not any impressive or effective national public health response. Instead, the public has been regimented into believing the pandemic’s spread...
Thirdy Ravena mourns the loss of Ateneo Blue Eagles fan and good friend Andie Cruz who was only 23 years old. (Photo from Thirdy Ravena's Instagram account @3rd_e) Thirdy Ravena on Wednesday mourned the loss of Ateneo Blue Eagles fan and good friend Andie Cruz who was only 23 years old. Ravena took...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta During a weekly zoom session with former classmates, one of them complained that she saw an almost exact copy of a Manansala she had inherited, in an on-line catalogue of an auction house. Another one detected a perfume of fraud when a copy of her own painting was for...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It is now a familiar sight in many streets in Metro Manila: Jeepney drivers flagging down private car owners and begging for alms. It is a sight we never expected to see in our lifetime, although we’ve had an inkling that it could happen, especially considering the previous and...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta At this writing, the venerable Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives are about to have a bicameral meeting about what to do with the P162-billion pandemic fund provided by the Bayanihan 2 bill. I was informed that P10 billion has been earmarked...
This work-from-home arrangement, popularized with three initials as WFH, is now the norm, rather than the “exception“ it was just a year ago. When Manila Bulletin Lifestyle approached architects, interior designers, and furniture makers to reveal their WFH spaces, we got an overwhelming...
HOTSPOT Come 2022, I look forward to a groundswell of support and perhaps even an emphatic victory for Anakpawis if it runs again for partylist representation in Congress. And we have to thank Randall Echanis for it. Today, the memory and record of Echanis towers over traditional political beasts...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Very few remember that he went rogue during People Power 1 – he disobeyed the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and found ways to divert the menacing army tanks from entering EDSA where thousands were already gathered to protest against the dictatorship. When he was...
JC DE VERA with Rikkah Cruz (Instagram) JC de Vera has decided to movie his wedding with fiancee Rikkah Cruz to another date due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. JC and Rikkah were supposed to marry on Oct. 10. The new date has not been revealed as of press time. It was February when JC...
HOTSPOT Doctors have been repeatedly asked about and have also been repeatedly giving their opinion about the coronavirus pandemic since March. Unfortunately, our leaders have depended on an entirely different set of advisers. The result of indifference to health care workers has been, to say the...
