PEACE-MAKER The recent happenings in the Lakas-CMD (Christian-Muslim Democrats) brought back memories of the beginnings of the party as well as the many challenges and struggles we and our partymates faced together. When we, together with then former Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos and former...
House Deputy Speaker and Cebu 5th district Rep. Vincent Franco "Duke" Frasco (left) and Jose Mari Chan (Facebook) It's still early June, but it already feels like the "Ber months" for Cebu 5th district Rep. Vincent Franco "Duke" Frasco. This, after Frasco bumped into the king of Philippine...
Journalist Jose Torres Jr. took his oath as the new Philippine Information Agency (PIA) director-general on Monday, May 29. Photo courtesy of PTV Torres took his oath of office before Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Cheloy Garafil on Monday morning. His appointment was announced...
The driver of the motor vehicle that hit several Filipino cyclists along the Arabian Gulf Road in Kuwait surrendered to authorities. (Photo from Maya Cycle) This was announced by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during an interview with DZBB on Sunday, May 28. DFA Undersecretary for Migrant...
PEACE-MAKER In April 2016, the organizations of political parties of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa convened for the first time in Jakarta to explore ways and means of economic and political cooperation among our three continents. The historic (in a sense) meeting was held among...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two top officials of the New People's Army in Eastern Visayas were arrested by the military and police in San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan on Friday, May 26. Rosita Solayao Taboy, alias “Laling,” a former secretary of the Regional Organizational Department (ROD) and member of...
The first pocketbook edition of Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere translated into Portuguese has been launched by the Philippine Embassy in Lisbon. Philippine Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna Feria, in her remark during the launching, said the importance of translating Rizal's famous novel is a...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has appointed journalist and two-time National Book Award recipient Jose Torres Jr. as the new director general of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA). (Photo courtesy of PCO and PIA) Torres will replace resigned PIA chief Mon Cualoping, whose...
Lawyer Jose Art Tugade has resigned as head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) due to differences with the Department of Transportation (DOTr). *Former Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Jose Art Tugade (File photo)* In a statement shared by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on...
PEACE-MAKER Since early 2020, we have been spending most of our time in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma landed on Jan. 9, 1945 and Dec. 22, 1941, respectively. To this day, we...
PEACE-MAKER The city of our birth, Dagupan, by the edge of Lingayen Gulf, lies close to the pilgrim town of Manaoag, where devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is a faith cast in stone. Our earliest memory of our town was an area of lowlands in the midst of swamps nestled by the South China Sea. In...
Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez said that the conduct of joint patrols by the Philippines and its key allies will likely happen “very soon” in the contested South China Sea. (Photo from Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C.) “I foresee it to happen very soon,”...
