The Department of Education (DepEd) praised a teacher from Kapalong, Davao del Norte for initiating a mobile stage for her kinder students who were not able to join their pictorial as part of their virtual moving-up ceremony for School Year (SY) 2020-2021. (DepEd Facebook page) Kinder teacher Mae...
HOTSPOT People have a lot of questions about the government’s Friday announcement that Metro Manila would again be placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine from August 6 to 20. ECQ is the toughest and most painful type of quarantine since 2020, and thus not easy to forget. We don’t want a...
In past weeks, 47-year-old actress Sheryl Cruz has been using "#BabeandBabyTime" in her social media posts featuring 28-year-old actor Jeric Gonzales. Netizens are convinced that it's Sheryl's way of indirectly announcing they are making sweet music. View this post on Instagram Just recently,...
Despite their popularity as love team, both John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo are consistent in denying insinuations they were involved romantically in real life. John Lloyd would like to keep it that way, making his stand obvious in a recent interview with Karen Davila, describing his perennial...
Ride-hailing firm Grab Philippines will be giving out rewards to vaccinated driver-partners and delivery riders as a way to encourage them to get the jab and support the inoculation efforts of the government against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta He wrote in English to the editor of the “Hong Kong Telegraph,” but did not sign his real name. “Yours faithfully, Philippino,” was how he ended. Curiously, the date line was Manila, February 1, 1892, although he was still in Hong Kong. His second homecoming...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Many migrant Filipino workers and Filipino immigrants are familiar with pandemic-related aid. I’m not talking about paltry sums of Social Amelioration Program (SAP). I’m talking about adequate aid. The US government sent $2,000 checks to Americans. That’s on top of social...
Yesterday I received the devastating news that a beloved aunt of mine passed away due to cardiac arrest. The rest of the day went by in a detached sort of way with only this distinct awareness that I had something seemingly stuck in my throat as I went about my usual. As the day wound down, I dealt...
Wally Gonzalez (Elytista Lines) Rock legend Wally Gonzalez, guitarist for the popular OPM rock band Juan dela Cruz, has passed away. This was announced by his son John Gonzalez on Facebook, July 23. John's full post: "My father Wally Gonzalez Full passed away peacefully in his sleep earlier this...
The Philippine Embassy in Jakarta is awaiting the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on whether to allow Filipinos to return to the country following the spike of Delta variant cases in Indonesia. Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia Lee Hiong...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta The Spanish-American War of 1898 was described as inter-imperialist by no less than Lenin himself because it was a grab for existing colonies. That was how Dr. George Aseniero, eminent Filipino historian and authority on Rizal, began his brilliant paper, “The Game of...
From left: Actor John Lloyd Cruz, ABS-CBN President Carlo Katigbak, and Marilen Roa Nunez of Crown Asia Management. Actor John Lloyd Cruz was recently seen in the company of ABS-CBN President Carlo Katigbak amid rumors that he will be transferring to GMA 7.  In fact, Marilen Roa Nuñez of...
