ENDEAVOR After reviewing the results of last week’s midterm elections, what insights or lessons may be gained? First, there is a shift in voter sentiment toward seeking alternatives to the Marcos-Duterte dualism. Second, the significance of gaining electoral ascendancy in the Lingayen-Lucena...
ENDEAVOR Pope Leo XIV is the sixth pope I have known throughout my life. Thanks to social media, and to his being the first American Pope, he could well become the most well-known Pope of the modern era. Social media posts on the new Pope have proliferated on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and...
ENDEAVOR On Thursday, May 1, 10 persons, including four children, were killed and more than 37 others were injured in a multiple-vehicle collision at the SCTEX Tarlac City toll plaza. Three days later, on Sunday, May 4, two persons, a five-year-old girl and a 29 year-old Overseas Filipino Worker...
ENDEAVOR Thirty-two months after its launch in September 2023, SERVE — a book co-authored by 19 campus journalists who witnessed the First Quarter Storm of 1970 as student activists, and chronicled the Filipino people’s struggle against systemic ills that stymied the country’s progress...
ENDEAVOR In January 2015, I met Pope Francis and received his blessings when he came to the Philippines. Ten months later, in November 2015, I met him anew when I joined President Benigno S. Aquino III in a personal call at Domus Sanctae Marthae (Casa Santa Marta) in the Vatican where the Holy...
ENDEAVOR After all these years, it’s only while writing this column last week that I came upon an interesting discovery. Ceferino Paz Arroyo, Jr. is the real name of the late former Senator Joker Arroyo whom I admired greatly as one of the non-traditional politicians to have emerged...
ENDEAVOR At an early age, I became aware of Shoemart Carriedo or SM. On my birthday, my mother would bring me to Quiapo church to hear mass, after which we walked over to the Brown photo studio on Dasmariñas street for my solo portrait. Then we would go to SM Carriedo, one of the first...
ENDEAVOR For more than a week last month, Filipinos savored with pride the brilliant performance of 19-year-old Alex Eala on the tennis courts of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Entering the World Tennis Association (WTA) 1000 event with a world ranking of no. 140 among women...
ENDEAVOR The recent arrest and extradition of former President Rodrigo Duterte to face trial for alleged crimes against humanity has reignited deep divisions in Philippine society. Some view this as a long-overdue act of justice, while others see it as politically motivated. As a Rotarian...
ENDEAVOR It was at the UP College of Mass Communication where I first met Patricia Evangelista, circa 2015, while I was serving as Communications Secretary. She was the first to ask a question during an open forum that followed a talk that I just delivered. Eight years later, I got hold of her...
ENDEAVOR Growing up in Barangay Pio del Pilar, Makati, I played with fellow youngsters who went to the Don Bosco campus on Pasong Tamo (now Chino Roces avenue) and Pasay Road (now Arnaiz street) on weekends to play football and basketball and attend catechism classes. They brought home with them...
ENDEAVOR On Tuesday, February 25, I received sad news about the passing of an esteemed friend, Alberto ‘Bert’ Lina. I had known Bert for many years and worked closely with him when we both served with President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino. He was a jolly good fellow, always smiling, and ready...
