LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Last week, we were intrigued by reports about a 30-meter deep and 300-meter-wide tunnel, with a 1.72-meter-high cave, totally man-made, “discovered” in the New Bilibid Prison Reservation in Muntinlupa City. Was someone looking for gold? Towards the end of the year,...
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Olympic and triple world amateur boxing champion Andy Cruz -- who was expelled from Cuba's official federation in July -- is planning to turn pro and says he left his home country "legally," after speculation he had defected. Olympic and triple world amateur boxing...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Today, Nov. 19, is the 195th day since the May 9, 2022 elections. The victors have formed national and local administrations, organized the House and the Senate, and have long started to conduct the business of government in the executive, legislative and local offices. The...
It seems like John Lloyd Cruz and Isabel Santos are slowly opening up about their relationship. Just recently, Isabel shared behind-the-scenes photos of them attending an event. The last picture shows the two holding each other's hands. Many netizens bombarded the comment section with heart emojis....
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Fr. Pedro Chirino, S.J. ( 1557-1635) arrived with governor-general Gomez Perez Dasmarinas in 1590. He wrote “ Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604),” which is valuable because it captured a historical moment, those early “points of contact” between natives and...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Going to the public market or supermarket in the past few months and weeks is a sure way to have heartaches and headaches. Less people are using the big carts. We’re not really buying less stuff. We can no longer afford to buy more, even if we wanted to. Our money costs less...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta That was Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.'s enlightened declaration – “We need reforestation… plant good trees.” – After the Biblical deluge and killer landslides in Maguindanao del Norte. During a conference with local government officials of Datu Odin Sinsuat, he...
Pangasinan 4th District Rep. Christopher de Venecia on Wednesday, Nov. 9, questioned the lack of government-provided incentives for Filipino creatives who have won prestigious international awards as he compared how athletes have gotten benefits for achieving the same. (Unsplash/Manila Bulletin)...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz It is said that the family is the basic unity of society. Who would oppose that? No one. But there are a lot of backward ideas about it, and they are not helpful to families and it’s members. There are extended families, or those that include grandparents, titos, titas,...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta The spokesman of Filipino farmers, Ka Rene Cerilla of PAKISAMA, lamented that farmers are never consulted, much less invited to significant policy-making meetings. He was one of the panelist-reactors at the “21st Jaime V. Ongpin memorial lecture on Public Service in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz After my mother Liwayway Memije Cruz died, our dad and my siblings talked about what to do next and how to go about the wake. Our sister said Mama should have a wake where students and friends could visit and honor her. We could think of only one fitting place: the Polytechnic...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “What is the dead body saying?” That was how Dr. Raquel Fortun answered when I asked about her profession. What is it like to be a forensic pathologist, and be with cadavers most of the time? She had just returned to the Philippines after giving up a successful...
