HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Last weekend’s column about a certain director’s unwitting self-admission about the importance of facts and evidence went viral, with no small help from his arrogance, hubris and the apparent penchant for riding on the names of others. I’m not mentioning his name here, out...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Let us standardize the adobo, said the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). What an impossible task, chimed my Rizal lady cousins last Monday, Aug. 29, as we celebrated National Heroes’ Day at the chalet of Gen. Paciano Rizal. We reminisced about a couple of adobo...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I leave it to critics, cineastes, artists and film lovers to give their knowledgeable reviews of the martial law period film “Katips.” It would also be only a matter of time for us to know how many trophies it would receive from other award-giving bodies, to add to its seven...
Gemma Cruz Araneta Most Filipinos like me believe that the United States of America is the unbreachable, gleaming bastion of democracy. Despite the rise of China and Russia, the USA remains to be the most powerful, mightiest and wealthiest country on Planet Earth. Many of my contemporaries migrated...
Malacañang said there is no stopping the Marcos administration from going after big businessmen who are allegedly behind the widespread sugar hoarding as the Bureau of Customs (BOC) visited warehouses in Mindanao this week. File photo In a statement, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said that...
Six Bureau of Customs (BOC) officials from the Port of Subic were relieved for their supposed involvement in the alleged smuggling of sugar, Malacañang announced. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) relieves six officials for alleged smuggling of sugar at the Port of Subic. (OPS) Press Secretary Trixie...
Malacañang remains tight-lipped on calls for President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to designate a full-time Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary to focus on issues affecting the agriculture sector. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) "We have no...
To help prevent the spread of the deadly virus, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has urged schools, students, and parents to avail of its free online course on Covid-19 prevention. TESDA “As we set to open our schools for full face-to-face classes, we are inviting...
Actor John Lloyd Cruz is featured once again in the Instagram feed of his rumored girlfriend, painter Isabel Santos. Uploading a photo of them together, Isabel wrote: "Nagtricycle lang, mag collage na???" The comment section of the said post has been "limited." Recall that last month Isabel also...
Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles has recovered from Covid-19, she said on Monday, Aug. 22. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles (Photo courtesy of the Office of Press Secretary) Angeles tested negative for the disease after undergoing a seven-day mandatory isolation. She said she is back to work...
Malacañang pounced hard anew on suspected sugar hoarders as it announced the seizure of at least 60,000 bags of sugar in a series of inspections in different warehouses in Bulacan on Saturday, August 20. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) yields at least 60,000 sacks of suspected hoarded sugar in their...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz As a kid, I found first day of school was almost always a happy, exciting time. Except, of course, for the truly first day at kindergarten or Grade 1, which not a few cry about. But for the rest of our student days, most of us would look forward to rejoining friends, discovering...
