ON THE OFFENSE Former President Rodrigo Duterte present at the House of Representatives Committees on Dangerous Drugs, Public Order and Safety, Human Rights and Public Accounts Joint Committee Meeting (Photo by Santi San Juan) In a recent interview, former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte...
RALLY FOR PEACE Over 1.6 million members of Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) gathering at Quirino Grandstand during the National Rally for Peace (Photo by John Louie Abrina) It was a sea of white as if the clouds themselves had descended on earth. Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) members, 1.6 million...
New Year has become a time for resolutions but as I said in last week’s column, resolutions are born on any given hour or second every day. Some accomplish their resolutions sooner than others. Some resolutions do take time, sometimes years, to accomplish. In last week’s column, I mentioned two...
The New Year is upon us and here we go again with the new and oftentimes recycled set of resolutions. Having started the years with a set of goals to end the year for more than half a century of my life, I know how difficult it can get. It has helped to have guidelines when making my yearly...
We all have our fair share of family dramas and this becomes more evident come Christmas time when we are all forced by holiday circumstances to gather in one place. The Romualdezes have been described as far back as the late 1800s to be “as loud as an orchestra.” To this day, when...
Christmas is upon us and here is part 2 of my Christmas Wish Ko Lang series. Last week, we heard from members of the different branches of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and a member of the Philippine Military Academy. This week, let’s hear it for members of the private sector and...
It’s Christmas time and with it come the holiday wishes for the impending New Year. How best to get a feel of what Filipinos wish for in their heart of hearts than by asking members of society what they’d like to enjoy in 2025. In the first part of my “Christmas Wish Ko Lang” series, I...
A SIMPLE CELEBRATION President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. leading the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Malacañang grounds “We all deserve Christmas,” said President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (PBBM) at his speech at the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremonies at Malacañan Palace on Dec. 1....
FILIPINAS IN THE FOREFRONT From left, top row: Dr. Clare Baltazar, Fe del Mundo, Lourdes J. Cruz; second row: Josefa Llanes-Escoda, Angelita Castro-Kelly, Dr. Lourdes Cruz; third row: Clara Lim-Sylianco, Sen. Imee Marcos, First Lady Imelda Marcos with President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., and...
A NEW REVOLUTION Factions of the Katipunan movement met during the Tejeros Convention to elect the new leaders of the Philippine Revolution My uncle, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos (PFEM), believed that one of the things needed to ensure the success of government programs was...
CARLITO SYRICHTA Bohol's iconic tarsier is considered as one of the smallest primates (Photo from Wikipedia) A few years ago, I was surprised to read that the Philippine tarsier was sighted on the island of Leyte. I was under the impression that tarsiers were only found in Bohol. A...
In the past weeks, I have been going through the speeches of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos (PFEM), the 10th president of the Republic of the Philippines. Purely by chance or as a natural progression of sorts, I was tasked by his daughter to organize his written works and annotate them. You...
