Although it was an unwanted public health emergency that left a deep scar in our national consciousness, the Covid-19 pandemic may be seen in a more positive light for instilling in the minds of our leaders and the general public the importance of an adequate and reliable food supply chain. The...
BEHIND THE SCENES Francisco M. Galvero Jr., with his apprentice Annie Ignacio, preparing the set for a ballet production Most often, audiences perceive the hard work that the actors, musicians, and rest of the cast, the so-called front liners of any production, put into a successful performance....
The FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 formally opens today, Aug. 25, at the Philippine Arena in Bulacan. This will be the second time that this basketball-crazy nation is hosting the world cup, the first was in 1978 when it was still called the FIBA World Championship. This time around, it will...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Today’s feast of the Queenship of Mary is celebrated on the octave of the feast of the Assumption and a logical consequence of it. Pope Pius XII who established the feast in 1954 points out that Mary deserves the title because of her close association with Jesus’ redemptive...
SO34T700 What If Beige Time is circular, although in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera wrote that “time runs ahead in a straight line,” the argument on which his definition of happiness as “the longing for repetition” is anchored. But the past is everywhere in the present...
Filipinos have always loved their libations—that’s a statistically and historically factual statement. An International Wine and Spirits Research report a decade ago published information about the habits of the Pinoy drinker, including how we consume 43 percent of the world’s gin, landing us...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said the Philippines should at least have an exchange training program for nurses with other countries as Filipino nurses continue to seek greener pastures abroad. File photos (Malacañang/Manila Bulletin) Marcos said this following reports that Filipino...
Police arrested two suspected drug pushers who were tagged by the police as High Value Individuals (HVI) in a buy-bust operation on Wednesday, Aug. 9, in Binangonan, Rizal. Binangonan Chief of Police Maj. Rhonnie Ariola, identified the suspect as Virgo Villarmin, 42 and Johnny Marquez, 63,...
Angel Thoughts It was a poignant gathering of the family, friends, admirers and co-workers of the “Icon of Democracy,” Former President Corazon C. Aquino last Aug. 1 at her shared gravesite with her husband Ninoy and son Noynoy. Officiating at the mass was her old friend Fr. Manoling Francisco,...
It has been raining for more than a week now, and it will be raining some more because it’s the wet season in the Philippines. Floodwaters are still in some towns in Bulacan province days after typhoon Egay left the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and residents go on with their...
DAVAO CITY – Ann Esteban, a mother of three, bested several artists from different parts of Mindanao in the senior category of the Davao City leg of the Manila Bulletin Sketchfest at the SM City Davao on Saturday, August 5. WINNERS of the Manila Bulletin Sketchfest Davao City leg. Esteban,...
DAVAO CITY – Almost 300 artists from Mindanao joined the Davao leg of the Manila Bulletin (MB) Sketchfest 2023 at the activity center of the SM City Davao Annex here on Saturday, August 5. Manila Bulletin Vice President for Circulation Dante Simangan, with SM City Davao Mall Manager Lester...
