LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta I came across this declaration: “We have created our myth. This myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality…Our myth is the nation, our myth is the greatness of the nation! And to this myth, this greatness, which we want to translate into...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Suddenly, there were no more coups d’etat. Although President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) won 23.58 percent of electoral votes in the 1992 elections, the country seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief. How reassuring that perennial destabilizers, mutineers and plotters,...
ILOILO CITY – Student organizations questioned Sunday, August 7, the decision of the West Visayas State University (WVSU) in Iloilo City to hire First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos as part-time College of Law faculty. FIRST Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos (2nd from right) with President Ferdinand R. Marcos...
Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Prospero De Vera III expressed gratitude to First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos for joining the West Visayas State University (WVSU) as one of its faculty members under the College of Law. First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos with her family during the...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Much too often, snippets of “legal wife versus mistress” pop up while I am scrolling for breaking news about the J6 Select Committee hearings in the USA, or the billion dollars awarded to the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu by a foreign arbitral court. I am always...
CARMONA, Cavite — The Philippine Football Federation (PFF) is set to have its new headquarters by next year here at Barangay Milagrosa. PFF president Nonong Araneta (center) leads the groundbreaking ceremony of the new PFF headquarters in Carmona, Cavite. (PFF) PFF president Mariano “Nonong”...
Plains and Prints’ collaborates with Rosanna Ocampo on an anniversary collection By Diann Calucin IT’S ALWAYS SUMMER IN HAVANA Rae Dennis, Emma Tiglao, Alexandra Rocha Araneta, Anne Curtis, Rosanna Ocampo, Roxanne Farillas, Juana Yupangco, Nicole Jacinto Gonzalez, Mikaela Lagdameo Martinez, and...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta If I were teaching the Rizal course as mandated by RA 1425, I would begin with how Rizal reacted to the most devastating crisis he had to face. Isn’t crisis management what we need most these days? In 1891, the Dominican Order of friars were the richest landowners...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta No, this is not about the intrepid Gringo Honasan who was at National Defense Minister J. Ponce Enrile’s side when the Marcos government was toppled by People Power in February 1986. Gringo also led a few coups d’etat against President Corazon Aquino which she...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta To this day, the Philippines is described as an agricultural country which is probably why the 17th president, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr, (PBBM) appointed himself Secretary of Agriculture. It happens to be an utterly sensitive sector of the national economy, the most...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta On June 30, the world around me unveiled an astounding mural of light and brilliant pigments splashed across the horizon. Gone was the subdued landscape of impressionist paintings with indeterminate brushstrokes in pastel shades. If the colors and myriad hues I now see...
All that turned heads at the presidential inauguration THE FINAL REVENGE OF THE TERNO The terno has been making a significant comeback as a symbol of Philippine national style and identity (Cover design by Jules Vivas, photo of Liza Araneta-Marcos' terno courtesy of Lesley Mobo) The...
