Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) and the Araneta Group’s joint venture Altaraza Development Corporation (ADC) is investing P20 billion to develop 600 hectares of prime land to form part of the existing Altaraza estate in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan. In a statement, ALI said this expansion will provide a...
Cignal players celebrate after scoring a point against F2. (PVL Media Bureau) By NIKOLE JAVIER Cignal needed just an extra set to keep its semifinal bid alive as it slipped past F2 Logistics, 25-21, 20-25, 25-14, 25-20, in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) Reinforced Conference Saturday...
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...
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...
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has opened a new licensing center in Quezon City in a bid to serve more motorists seeking for the renewal of driver's license. LTO chief Teofilo Guadiz III said the Araneta Licensing Center is located at 20 G. Araneta Avenue, in Barangay Sto. Domingo and is...
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...
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...
Expectations and excitement build up as the Philippine women's national football team braces to know its future opponents in the World Cup when the official draw kicks off at the Aotea Center in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday, Oct 22. The Philippine women's national football team, simply the...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In 1959, while Antonio Araneta, Jr. ( my husband) was polishing his undergrad thesis (‘Elites and Economic Development in Underdeveloped Countries’) at the Notre Dame University, a be-medalled sergeant of the Philippine Army, survivor of World War II was applying...
First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos has "no vested interests" and merely wants to protect her husband, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. From left to right: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos, and First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos (Lakas-CMD)...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta The phrase “red tagging,” which sends a chill up my spine, did not exist when Antonio S. Araneta (my husband) was writing his undergrad thesis in 1959, titled “Elites and Economic Development in Underdeveloped Countries.” Way back then, he called red-tagging a...
Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos admits that he's a "mama's boy", although he describes himself now as a fully independent 28-year-old. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (PIA Ilocos Norte) Rep. Marcos, the senior deputy majority leader in the House of Representatives, made...
