GUEST COLUMNIST By GODDES HOPE O. LIBIRAN Some siblings are connected with us by flesh, sharing one mother's womb. There are also those connected to us by heart, people with whom we have a deep affinity with as if we've known each other forever. One sister, a kindred spirit, is my best...
GUEST COLUMNIST “What is your aspiration?” the amiable GSIS President and General Manager (PGM) Jose Arnulfo A. Veloso would always ask people, ever since he became a banker and up to his current post. The sincerity of his query is what has made his leadership for the past “year and four...
A big tree inside a supermarket in Batangas City is gaining traction among shoppers because it is making the place more alive and connected with nature. Since its establishment in 1986, Citimart has become one of the landmarks in Batangas City, Batangas, that saw the urban area's rapid...
WALA LANG OIL ON OAK Adoration of the Kings, Jan Gossaert (National Gallery of Art, London) The Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem bringing to the Child Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Everyone knows gold but frankincense and myrrh? Used in religious ceremonies, they came from faraway...
Faith and devotion on the Feast of the Black Nazarene Every year, there are many feasts and festivals that show religious fervor in the Philippines, and it starts with the most celebrated one – the feast of the Black Nazarene on Jan. 9. It is a feast that attracts such a large number of devotees...
A sinkhole is a hole in the earth's surface caused by the erosion of the ground layer beneath, according to the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER). This hole grows over time and can have a diameter ranging from one to 600...
‘There and back again’ refers to a crucial point in a journey in which we may find ourselves looking at where we have been to make sense of where we are and where we are going “There and back again,” the underlying theme of this special holiday issue, is the subtitle to J.R.R. Tolkien’s...
The secrets of the Malacañan Palace as told by someone who grew up there WALA LANG …‘mid pleasures and palaces, though not many can think of a palace as home. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. is one of the few who can. His family moved there when he was eight years old and there he stayed in the...
If there's one House member whose opinion on Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos actually matters, its Majority Leader and Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos speaks on the podium. Over his right shoulder is Majority Leader Mannix...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan With the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the largest trade agreement involving many countries since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO), due to be brought up in the Senate soon, the question remains: will the agriculture sector be...
REFLECTIONS TODAY MATTHEW 8:23-27 The boat of the disciples is often taken as a metaphor, an image of the Church that sails through the turbulent waters of life. The storm can stand for the antagonism and persecution of the believers. Or it can also be a deceptive and interior storm in the form of...
WALA LANG Sex or money, preferably combined, heats up otherwise ho-hum COVID lockdowns. With titillating peccadillos already taken for granted, it’s really money that raises antennae. Siblings sue each other, children sue wicked madrasta , children sue widowed parent—all over inheritance....
