ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 23, 1972, I was arrested at home by officers of the Philippine Constabulary’s Metropolitan Command (Metrocom) and brought to the Camp Crame gymnasium. The arresting officer sat on the front seat. My mother sat beside me on the rear...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal, with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck. Anvils are as massive as practical, because the higher their inertia, the more efficiently they cause the energy of striking tools to be...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma A confluence of recent events provides the backdrop for focusing on the pole-vaulting strategy that was advocated by President Fidel V. Ramos 25 years ago at the opening of the National Development Summit (Pole-Vaulting Conference) organized by the National Economic and...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma What I thought would be a routine renewal of my car’s registration last July did not turn out to be that way. The Land Transportation Office (LTO) would not process it unless I paid a ₱2,000 fine at the Manila City Hall for a traffic violation that had been detected by...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s decision to assume the position of Secretary of Agriculture has come into intense focus on account of the controversy surrounding the planned importation of 300 million kilos of sugar that is now being investigated by the Senate Blue...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Philippine Army Scout Ranger Landero was part of a team that mounted an attack on a well-entrenched mountain lair of the insurgents in Makilala, Cotabato on Aug. 15, 1992. He was trailing a fellow soldier by about five meters when the latter stepped on an anti-tank land mine...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Cyrell Jones Sidlao, or Teacher CJ, a Special Education (SPED) teacher at Buyos Elementary School in Sindangan, Zamboanga Del Norte, was pleasantly surprised when two police officers came to the school to enroll a young boy. “I need to share this!” said Teacher CJ in his...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Jeric Mahilum, fourth of seven children of a tricycle driver, thanked his parents for rearing and seeing him through basic and higher education despite economic challenges as he delivered the valedictory address at Riverside College in Bacolod City last week. He was among the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma One of the highlights of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s first State of the Nation Address was the presentation on the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy’s “headline goals” as follows: Real GDP growth of 6.5 to 7.5 percent in 2022 and 6.5 to 8 percent from 2023 to 2028;...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “Sailing off without a map is marvelous.” Thus began the message of gratitude delivered by Laurice Frenzel DC. Belgica, valedictorian, of the Centro Escolar Integrated School (CEIS) in Malolos City, Bulacan at the school’s commencement exercises the other day. I was...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Last week, I experienced a déjà vu and did a quick walk down memory lane upon reading President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s Executive Order Nos. 1 and 2 reorganizing the Office of the President. In December 1990, I found myself working in the Office of the President when Oscar...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma At 7 o’clock in the morning on Monday, July 4, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista was on his way to attend the flag-raising ceremony at the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB). He saw long lines of commuters waiting for their ride at one of the...
