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...
LANDSCAPE Pandemics like COVID-19 are nothing new. Through the centuries, humankind had gone through a number of episodic plagues and virulent pestilences that only the fittest survived. European archeologists have found evidence that the first pandemic sprang...
LANDSCAPE I know it is none of my damned business to comment on what is going on in the United States of America. I have kept my thoughts to myself and have been careful not to share them with former classmates who have made...
LANDSCAPE With pent-up rage, angry clusters of young people have defaced, decapitated, smashed to bits, dumped in rivers the imposing monuments and effigies that glorify colonial masters like King Leopold II of Belgium and Cecil Rhodes, diamond merchant and prime minister of the Cape Colony (1890...
LANDSCAPE Have you heard of the plans to put Lapu-Lapu in a cage? I may be imagining things after being under “house arrest” for more than a hundred days, but that is how it looks to me. The proposed Lapu-Lapu memorial which will be inaugurated next year, during the quincentennial is a ...
LANDSCAPE In his White House memoir, titled The Room Where It Happened , Mr. John Bolton, former national security adviser of President Donald Trump, tells all, somewhat maliciously. Almost daily, he would go to that room , the Oval Office, to give his boss a briefing about what was...
LANDSCAPE At this writing, Twink Macaraig is no more. The outspoken journalist, television anchor, fearless Filipina has gone to where there are no villains nor tyrants. Her bereaved husband Archt. Paulo Alcazaren announced her demise on Facebook. Although her friends knew that Twink was bravely ...
LANDSCAPE Very few Cebuanos remember that the patron saint of their capital, Cebu City, is not the wildly worshipped Santo Nino but the obscure Catholic martyr, San Vidal. As you probably know, in 1521, Ferdinand Magellan gave the queen of Cebu a statue of the Santo Nino because she took a...
Gemma Cruz Araneta In the Vatican, a born controversialist has occupied the chair of St. Peter. He has lifted the privilege of “pontifical secrecy” which has concealed and tolerated abuses and crimes committed by all levels of the clergy. Last December, he appointed a young Filipino cardinal,...
