ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Two major crises that the Duterte administration faced were the Marawi siege of 2017 and the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in March 2020 that hit its peak in December 2021. President Duterte had just arrived in Moscow on May 22, 2017 for an official visit and talks with his...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Just like the three presidents who served ahead of them, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Benigno S. Aquino III, and Rodrigo R. Duterte faced major crises during their tenure that tested their will and leadership mettle. How they dealt with the challenges and carried out the herculean...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma From the tumultuous presidency of Corazon Aquino following the EDSA People Power Revolution in 1986, successive administrations – without exception – tackled and surmounted major crises. Lessons learned from those crises could provide pointers and pathways for the next...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Between the elections and the inauguration, a new administration has around a month and a half to prepare to assume office. Transition committees have been formed by both the outgoing and incoming administrations to ensure a smooth transfer of power. The incoming...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Monday, May 9, Filipinos will elect a new President and other national and local leaders. The election of a new President is a watershed event in the life of a nation. In 1986, the snap election called by Ferdinand Marcos – widely perceived as a gambit to fortify his grip...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Monday, May 9, Filipino voters will elect a new president, vice president, 12 senators, a representative for their congressional district, a provincial governor, vice-governor, provincial board members, city or municipal mayor, vice-mayors and members of the city or...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On Feb. 25, 2014, the 28th anniversary of the triumph of People Power at EDSA, my esteemed friend Conrad de Quiros wrote a column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer in which he raised the question, “Can an EDSA still happen today?” De Quiros has since been sidelined by a...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma For the first time in three years — yes, three years, not just two years — Filipino Christians are able to witness and participate in Holy Week festivities in person. Many express surprise at the realization that it’s been three years since we were in church to witness...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Last month, I was invited to speak to students of a Bacolod city-based college that included many youthful first-time voters. The forum focused on the importance of making informed choices during the coming elections so that good governance may be put in place. To provide...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Celebrating one’s birthday could become a learning opportunity by imagining a History Channel episode that chronicles the milestones of one’s life journey. If one born at this time in 1953 were to research newspaper archives, he would find out that the following were...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In January 1991, President Corazon Aquino convened a multisectoral workshop that would craft a contingency plan for coping with the effects of the Iraq-Kuwait War. Recall that in August 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait and declared its...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Voting in an election is the most important civic duty of a citizen. When citizens cast their ballots on election day, they exercise their sovereign right. The Philippine Constitution declares: “The Philippines is a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty resides in...
